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Hadise

Hadise Açıkgöz (born 22 October 1985 in Mol, Belgium), simply known as Hadise, is a Belgian-Turkish TMF award winning R&B singer-songwriter and an occasional presenter.

In 2005, Hadise released her debut album, "Sweat". The album spawned five hit singles, most noticably "Milk Chocolate Girl", "Bad Boy", and "Stir Me Up" for which Hadise won a TMF Award in Belgium and an "Altın Kelebek" (Golden Butterfly) award in Turkey.

Hadise then released her self-titled album, "Hadise", in both Belgium and Turkey. This album scored the hit singles "A Good Kiss" ("Deli Oğlan"), "My Body", and "Aşkkolik".

Hadise is currently producing her third studio album and represented Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 with the song "Düm Tek Tek" where she finished 4th. Hadise became the first singer not born in Turkey to represent the country at the contest. She is known for her unique songs which experiment with R&B and dance music. She also writes the lyrics for most of her songs which earned her critical acclaim.

Musical Career

2005-2006: Sweat

See also: Sweat (Hadise album)

Hadise in a 2006 concert in Antwerpen, Belgium

Soon after her appearance on Idool 2003, Hadise received a call from the manager of 2Brain records, Johan Hendrickx, who was impressed with her performance on the show and he offered her an album contract. Hadise's debut single "Sweat" which was released in November 2004 peaked at #19 on the Ultratop 50 singles chart. She later released the single Stir Me Up which gained popularity in both Turkey and Belgium. Hadise then released her single Milk Chocolate Girl, the biggest hit from her debut album, which peaked at #13 on the Ultratop 50. A year after releasing her debut single, in November 2005, Hadise released her debut album Sweat, on which she collaborated with Yves Gaillard.

Hadise presented "Popstars", which was a huge success for her as the programme attracted an average audience of twenty million viewers every week.

2008:"Hadise"

See also: Hadise (album)

Hadise's second album, "Hadise", was released in June 2008. The album is self-entitled, with the original intension to name it "On High Heels", referring to the fact that she has grown enormously in her professional career and knowledge. Hadise began to work on her second studio album in December 2007. The album was recorded in several countries, including Belgium, France, Turkey and Italy. Hadise released the lead single, "A Good Kiss", in October 2007. This became her sixth consecutive single to chart on the Belgian "Ultratop 50". The song was also successful in Turkey, where it became her first single to chart on the "Turkish Billboard Chart". The song was later translated into Turkish by Sezen Aksu, becoming one of the most played songs in clubs in the summer of 2008.. She released two more singles in Belgium "My Body", which is her best-selling single in Belgium so far, and "My Man and the Devil on His Shoulder", her first single not to chart on the Ultratop 50 chart.

"Hadise" has become the most successful album of Hadise's career so far, as it was the first album to enter the Belgium Album chart, at 19, it was the first album of Hadise's to be released onto iTunes.

In 2008, Açıkgöz appeared on Serdar Ortaç's album Nefes on a track called "Düşman". In July 2008, Hadise revealed that she met Kevin Federline during her trip to the USA and told the media that he had produced some music for her to use on a future album. A new video has surfaced of Hadise telling Belgian viewers that her future album will include urban beats and some of the producers and choreographers have worked with Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Alicia Keys and many more artists that are big in the game.

From October 2008, Hadise presented the Flemish version of X-factor.

2009-Present: Fast Life

Açıkgöz had revealed that she had begun work on her third studio album, entitled Fast Life, on her official MySpace page. The album was slated to be released on May 11, however the album was pushed back to May 15, a day prior to the Eurovision final. The album will feature Hadise's Eurovision entry Düm Tek Tek along with the two other songs Hadise presented TRT to enter the Eurovision Song Contest with, these were "Double Life" and "Supernatural Love".

Eurovision 2009

Although Hadise said in 2007 that she would never take part in the Eurovision Song Contest after her best friend Kate Ryan failed to qualify for the final, and because the Eurovison contestants in Belgium are chosen through pre-selections, Hadise announced in 2008 she would like to take part in the contest representing Turkey and on October 24, 2008 Hadise was confirmed as the Turkish representative at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2009. She had been the favourite to represent Turkey as she has won numerous online polls. In late October İbrahim Şahin, the general manager of Turkish broadcaster TRT announced that Hadise had won the poll held by TRT to determine the act to represent Turkey and they therefore had chosen Hadise. She won through a place in the final on May 16 where she finished in 4th place with 177 points.

Selection

Hadise had complete control over the production of the song for the Eurovision Song Contest. Açıkgöz decided the lyricist, composer, producer and the language of the song- English and as revealed by the Turkish newspaper "Sabah", Hadise eventually presented three songs to TRT, which then chose the entry internally.

Açıkgöz told Belgian newspapers she wanted to represent Turkey instead of Belgium because she has already won many Belgian awards and also because the Eurovision Song Contest isn't popular in Belgium anymore, whereas it is in Turkey. She also said that she preferred to represent Turkey as it was an internal selection rather than a public voting.

There were rumors that Hadise chose to represent Turkey rather than Belgium, because of a secret financial deal. On December 31, 2008 the song was revealed to be Düm Tek Tek.

Promotional Tour

At the start of February 2009 Hadise began travelling Europe as part of her promotional tour for Eurovision. The tour began on February 5 in Malta, and will continue until the May 5, a week prior to the first Eurovision semi-final takes place in Moscow.

The contest in Moscow

Hadise reached the final and finished fourth, behind Norway, Iceland and Azerbaijan, ahead of United Kingdom.

Television career

In 2006 Hadise presented Turkiye Popstar, a programme with twenty million viewers a week.

In 2008-2009 she got a job as a presenter for the first time in her birth country Belgium. She was the presenter of the second season of X Factor (Belgium) at Vtm. Although it was her first television job in Belgium, Hadise garnered much praise. She handled a critical moment where one of the judges left the contest during live television. Hadise was also praised by the candidats of X Factor for guiding them.

Acting career

Hadise has rejected two offers to star in a film. One of the parts was the leading role in a Turkish movie. Not much is known about this film, apart from the fact that the film supposedly focused on 2 sisters, one of whom was to be played by Hadise. In July 2008 Hadise was again offered a role in a Turkish comedy film. Although Açıkgöz turned down the two previous offers, she is still considering the part and it has been suggested she may take the offer as she is interested in the part and is currently reading through the script.

Musical Influences

Hadise has said she admires artists such as Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Janet Jackson, Alicia Keys and Mariah Carey. Hadise's songs have also clearly been influenced by Turkish music, making her songs rather unique, as it fuses R&B and Turkish pop. Examples of songs by her combining a strong Turkish slant with an Urban feel include Stir Me Up, Bad Boy, A Good Kiss and "Don't Ask".

Products and endorsements

It was announced that Hadise signed a deal with 'Yedigun', a Turkish Soda company, for a promotional deal, which includes her having to feature on TV commercials, on Billboards and taking part in a summer tour.

Controversy

Several controversies have occurred because of Hadise's racy image, leading the artist to say that "Some Turks think it is great, but others find it over the top".

Hadise was later criticised for her music video "Deli Oğlan", prior to its release. Images of Hadise with a male model were leaked online and some Turkish media condemned the video as too erotic. Hadise later removed these scenes from the video because of an disagreement with the male model. Hadise was asked in an interview on the "MTV Türkiye" show 'BeniMTV' (My MTV), about her feelings on the response to the video images, but refused to comment.

Açıkgöz Eurovision preview music video leaked on the internet Dum Tek Tek. Some visuals show Hadise in mini-shorts and her usual sexy image, the video was labelled as being too erotic just like her Deli Oğlan music video. But unlike the Deli Oğlan the video for Dum Tek Tek was leaked and many viewed the images as being sexual and explict. Some news appeared in Turkish media claiming that TRT declined to air the video clip as it had "images that are too sexual" in it. The manager of Hadise, Süheyl Atay, refuted these claims.

"TRT has no attitudes or enforcements restricting the productivity of the artist like it has never had up to now. The claims appearing on the Turkish press since 22nd March 2009 do not reflect the reality." Atay said that the montage process of the clip is still going on and the clip asserted to be the official one is only one of the 3 clip samples being delivered to TRT. "As can be understood from the quality of the images, that clip is not the final official version of the video clip. The process is going on, and the real clip will be made public by TRT as soon as possible." said Süheyl Atak.

Philanthropy

Hadise, along with many other artists, performed for a Cancer research concert in Belgium. Hadise was the opening act for the event and the concert ended up raising 1.6 million Euros.

Personal life

Hadise is known for being in strict secrecy about her personal life, especially when it's about her romantic relationships. She has been named "a loyal girlfriend" by several magazines, as she has never spoken out about any of her relationships.

Discography

Albums

• 2005: Sweat*
• 2008: Hadise
• 2009: Fast LIfe

EPs

• 2009: Düm Tek Tek

* Deluxe Edition was scheduled for a 2006 release.

Charting singles

For a full singles discography, see Hadise's Singles discography

Year	Single	Charts				Album
		BEL (Vl)	TUR	BEL (Wa)	GRE
2007	"Sweat"	19	-	-	-	Sweat
	"Stir Me Up"	22	-	-	-
	"Milk Chocolate Girl"	13	-	-	-
	"Bad Boy"	22	-	-	-
	"A Good Kiss"	28	6	-	-	Hadise
2008	"My Body"	8	-	-	-
	"Deli Oğlan"	-	3	-	-
	"Aşkkolik"	-	17	-	-
2009	"Düm Tek Tek"	1	TBA	24	6	Fast Life

Awards

Below are a list of awards for which Hadise has won or been nominated for,

Year	Title	Award	Nominated work	Result
2005	TMF Awards	Best New Artist	Sweat	Nominated
	Altın Kelebek ödülleri	Best New Female	Stir Me Up	Won
2006	TMF Awards	Best Urban Act	Sweat	Won
2007	TMF Awards	Best Urban Act	A Good Kiss	Won
2008	MTV EMA awards	Best Turkish Act	Deli Oğlan	Nominated
	TMF Awards	Best Urban Act	My Body	Nominated
		Best Female	Hadise	Nominated
		Best Video	My Body	Nominated
2009	Jetix Kids Awards	Best Turkish Female	Deli Oğlan	Won
	"Kral TV Awards"	Song Of The Year		Nominated
		Pop Artist Of The Year		Nominated

Eurovision

Hadise represented Turkey for the 2009 Eurovision song contest and finished fourth place.

External links

• Official Site
• [13]
• Interview with Belgian magazine, accessed on 2007/03/16, in Dutch
• Hadise