World music singer who found acclaim with his track "Zalim" off his 2004 debut album Ellerine Sağlık. He has more than 3.2 million followers on his YALINonline Twitter account. He has released 6 full-length albums throughout his career.
He wrote his first songs while he was in high school.
He collaborated with Shaggy and Ai Carina Uemura in 2006 on the track "Famous." He was involved in a series of commercials for Vestel, an appliance company.
He got into music at a young age by listening to his dad play songs by the Gypsy Kings on guitar.
He and Daddy Yankee are both world music singers that have worked with American pop singers.
