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Nazan Nihal
Nazan's music career started in 2001 when she
decided to buy her first electric guitar. She
began writing and composing her own songs in
English even before she learned to play covers
of famous artists. Her first rock band had been
her very first entry into the music industry,
helping her to shape and improve her guitar
skills. She is also a former member of the
Turkish national TV station TRT’s polyphonic
choir.
Nazan’s first professional project, an
all-female rock band, became very successful and
toured big cities throughout Turkey, where she
was both the songwriter and the electric guitar
player. In 2008, in an attempt to create
possibilities to release her own songs, Nazan
founded a new band called KupaKızı, thus opening
the doors to record two self written
compositions and one cover. Nazan's song “Paket”
won the 1st prize at the Miller Music Factory
Song Contest ‘08. It brought Nazan her first
major recognition of of her talents and was a
glimpse at what lies ahead for her career. In
2010, Nazan decided to focus on her solo career.
She has been writing and singing her own songs
since.
At the 6th anniversary of the Emrehan Halıcı &
Ankara Musicians rock concert, she appeared on
stage among the best musicians from Ankara. In
2011, Nazan gave a concert in Utrecht, Holland.
Her Turko-Dutch song “Mesafeler-Kilometers” was
rearranged and recorded by Michael Waters, an
Amsterdam-based musician/producer (Soul Planet
Studios/Amsterdam). The song was dedicated to
the celebration of 400 years of friendship
between Holland and Turkey.
In November 2011, Nazan Nihal collaborated with
Utar Artun, a talented musician/composer from
Berklee College, Boston. Utar Artun's song "The
Girl Who Has Chocolate Eyes" featuring vocals by
Nazan won the first prize at the 18th TBD-Halıcı
Electronic Music Contest in Istanbul.
Nazan played acoustic and electric guitar on 2
songs on tracks from Turkey's famous and
prestigious rock singer Cemil Demirbakan's debut
album produced by Artun Ertürk in 2012.
In January 2012 Nazan performed with a
Turkish-Dutch band in Amsterdam and 6 months
later Nazan returned to Holland to be featured
in the festivities at Sporthallen Zuid in
Amsterdam in celebration of the 400 years of
Dutch-Turkish relations. She appeared on stage
during the international female basketball game
between The Netherlands and Turkey and sang the
Turkish national anthem to open the game. That
summer Nazan focused on finishing her PhD
program in pharmacy in Ankara where she
graduated from in September while continuing to
work on her Turkish debut album, produced by
Tuna Velibașoğlu, the front man of the famed
Turkish band Seksendört.
Currently living in Boston, Nazan Nihal and Utar
Artun recently created a unique music project,
Neotolia, bringing the old Turkish folk songs to
contemporary folk sound. Having gathered
nationwide attention, Nazan and Utar were
invited to the the Television show the
Turkish-American Hour as well as to the Turkish
Festival ‘13 in Washington DC.
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Discography
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