Şebnem Ferah (born 12 April 1972 in Yalova) is a Turkish singer and song-writer. She was the vocalist of the all female hard rock band Volvox after which she went on to pursue a solo career.

Life and career
She was born on 12 April 1972 in Yalova to Turkish immigrant parents from Skopje. She first took solfeggio and instrument lessons from her father who was also a teacher. She grew up listening to her father's Rumelian folk songs played with bağlama, mandolin and piano.


She got her first guitar when she was in the first year in boarding at Bursa Namık Sözeri High School. She got acoustic lessons. During her second year, she hired a studio with her friends and formed the group Pegasus. In 1987 in Bursa they had their first stage experience in a rock festival. After a while, Pegasus disbanded. In 1988 with her four friends, Şebnem formed Volvox, which was named after volvox in biology lesson.

After graduating from high school, she attended Middle East Technical University studying economics and moved to Ankara with her sister. She met with Özlem Tekin and Özlem joined Volvox. Volvox didn't do any practice for a year and a half because the other members were living in İstanbul. In her second year at university, Şebnem changed her mind about being an economist, dropped out, and moved to İstanbul.

In Istanbul she attended English Language and Literature classes in Istanbul University. For two years she performed in bars with Volvox. In 1994 Volvox disbanded.

On Turkish Radio and Television Corporation one of Volvox's records was featured, and this changed her musical career. She was noticed by Sezen Aksu and become a vocalist for Sezen Aksu. One day Sezen Aksu and Onno Tunç heard her singing and they enjoyed it. She released her first solo album Kadın in 1996, and has gone on to release a total of five full studio albums, the last one being Can Kırıkları in 2005 with which she has moved from soft rock to hard rock.She is now the most admired rock singer in Turkey.She also writes all of her songs' music and lyrics by herself.And has her own group who are Buket Doran (Bassist),Metin Türkcan (Guitarist),Aykan İlkan (Drummer) and Ozan Tügen (Keyboard).This group has always been with her since her 3rd album,Perdeler.And they are always together on the stage.

Due to the closedown of the companies which produced Şebnem Ferah's first 4 albums they cannot be found any more

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