Asuman Krause (born 1 March 1976) is a Turkish actress, singer, model and TV presenter of Circassian origin who was crowned

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in 1998.

Early life and career

Born to a Circassian mother and a German father in Germany, Krause played for the Germany national youth basketball team. Afterwards she decided to stay with her mother in

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. She then became a model and in March 1998 she won the Miss Turkey beauty pageant and went on to represent Turkey at

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, winning the Congeniality award. In the early 2000s, she was one of the most famous models in Turkey. Giving up her modelling career in favour of a career as a singer in 2006, she released her debut album, ''Çok Yalnızım'' ( en, I'm very lonely), with the Turkish record company

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. It received some radio airplay and was compared with the likes of

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and

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. She released her second album, ''Kukla'' ( en, Puppet), this time with another record company, Üçüncügöz Müzik, in 2008. This was met with more success than her previous album, and the first single from that album, also called "Kukla" reached the 10th position on the Turkish ''Billboard'' charts.Billboard Türkçe Top 20
She hosted the Turkish versions of ''Wipeout'', ''

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Discography

Albums

*''Çok Yalnızım'' (I'm so lonely) (2006, Ozyurt Müzik) *''Kukla'' (Puppet) (2008, Erol Köse Prodüksiyon)

Singles

References

External links

Asuman Krause on Last.fmAsuman Krause on Spotify
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