page_title: Serhat (singer)
section_title: Musical career
hierarchical_section_title: Serhat (singer) / Career / Musical career
caption_attribution_description: English: Serhat representing San Marino with the song "I Didn't Know" during a rehearsal before the first semi final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016&#160;in Stockholm. (Help translate this text)
context_page_description: Ahmet Serhat Hacıpaşalıoğlu, known as Serhat, is a Turkish singer, songwriter, composer, producer and television presenter.
  Born and raised in Istanbul, Serhat started his producing career by establishing his own company in 1994, End Productions. In the same year, he also started to produce and host a quiz show on TRT called Riziko!. In 1997, with his first single, "Rüya-Ben Bir Daha", his musical career began. Beside his other hosting and producing works, he continued his musical career and released "Total Disguise" in 2004, "Chocolate Flavour" in 2005, "I Was So Lonely", "No No Never" and "Ya + Ti" in 2008 and "Je m'adore" in 2014.
  He represented San Marino in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Stockholm singing "I Didn't Know" on May 10, 2016 in the first semi final of Eurovision, but failed to qualify for the final. In 2017, the disco version of the song featuring Martha Wash was released. This version reached to the 25th place on Dance Club Songs chart by making Serhat the first Turkish singer that appeared on the chart. In 2018, a new version of "Total Disguise" featuring Elena Paparizou was released.
context_section_description: He started his musical career 1997, with a single of two songs "Rüya" and "Ben Bir Daha". In 2004, he released his second single named "Total Disguise" with the French singer Viktor Lazlo in duet. Lyrics and music of the song were written by Olcayto Ahmet Tuğsuz and the song was performed both in English and French. The single also contained several remix versions of the song. In 2005, he recorded "Chocolate Flavour" and the song was released with "Total Disguise" as a single in Greece. In 2008, he collaborated with Russian/Georgian singer Tamara Gverdtsiteli and they recorded "I Was So Lonely", "No No Never (Moscow-Istanbul)" and "Ya + Ti" (Russian version of "Total Disguise"). These songs were released as a single and also appeared in Gverdtsiteli's album Vozdushiy Potsyelui (2008).
  In 2014, Serhat started to work in France and Germany. He released his fifth single, a French song called "Je m'adore" with the music video directed by Thierry Vergnes shot in Paris. It reached number 1 for 5 weeks in a row on Deutsche DJ Black/Pop Charts, number 1 on Black 30, number 2 on British Dance Charts, number 8 on French Dance Charts and number 9 on Swiss Dance Charts.
  On January 12, 2016, San Marino RTV announced that Serhat will represent San Marino in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Stockholm. On March 9, 2016, the song that he will perform in the contest, "I Didn't Know" was released. He performed on May 10, 2016 during the first semi-final of the Eurovision contest and failed to qualify to final, ending in 12th place. On November 2, 2017, the disco version of "I Didn't Know" featuring Martha Wash that was re-arranged by the Swedish musician Johan Bejerholm was released as a single, along with a new music video. The song entered from the 47th place to the Dance Club Songs chart of the United States, and reached to its peak position, the 25th place on its fourth week in the chart. Thus, Serhat became the first Turkish singer that appeared in the chart. A new version of "Total Disguise" featuring Elena Paparizou was released on June 22, 2018 by CAP-Sounds. The music video of the single was released on September 14.
  On January 21, 2019, San Marino RTV announced that he will again represent San Marino in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv. On the same day, Serhat announced that he has been working on his first studio album which is set to be released in April 2019. The song that he performed in the contest "Say Na Na Na" was released with an accompanying music video on March 7. He performed in the first semi final on May 14, 2019 and qualified for the final. This was only the second time San Marino had qualified for a Eurovision final, and the first time since 2014. On July 19, 2019, a German cover version of "Say Na Na Na" titled "Sing Na Na Na" was released by Serhat. It was accompanied by a remade version of the music video of "Say Na Na Na" released the same day.
caption: Serhat during a rehearsal before the first semi final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 (May 6, 2016).
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