Neşe Yılmaz (born 15 January 1976), known by her stage name Zara, is a popular Turkish folk singer and actress of
Kurdish descent.
She was born in
Üsküdar
Üsküdar () is a large and densely populated district of Istanbul, Turkey, on the Anatolian shore of the Bosphorus. It is bordered to the north by Beykoz, to the east by Ümraniye, to the southeast by Ataşehir and to the south by Kadıköy; ...
district of
Istanbul
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on 15 January 1976. She released eight albums using the nickname "Neşecik".
She married İskender Ulus, the owner of the recording company Ulus Müzik, in 2002. They divorced in 2007. Her second marriage was to
Akif Beki, the chief counselor of
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (born 26 February 1954) is a Turkish politician serving as the 12th and current president of Turkey since 2014. He previously served as prime minister of Turkey from 2003 to 2014 and as mayor of Istanbul from 1994 to ...
and journalist in ''
Hürriyet
''Hürriyet'' (, ''Liberty'') is one of the major Turkish newspapers, founded in 1948.
, it had the highest circulation of any newspaper in Turkey at around 319,000. ''Hürriyet'' has a mainstream, liberal and conservative outlook. ''Hürriyet ...
'' newspaper, in 2012. Their daughter Dila was born in December.
The couple divorced in July 2016.
Discography
As "Neşecik"
* Eyvahlar Olsun (1986)
* Yaşamak Bu Değil (1987)
* Garibim (1988)
* Taptığım Allah, Sevdiğim Sensin (1989)
* Acımasız Dünya (1990)
* Çek Kara Tren (1991)
* Canım Askerim (1994)
* Gurbet & Ağla Sevdiğim (1995)
Filmography
TV programs
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Zara
1976 births
Living people
Kurdish women singers
Turkish folk singers
Turkish people of Kurdish descent
Singers from Istanbul
People from Üsküdar
Istanbul Technical University alumni
21st-century Turkish singers
21st-century Turkish women singers