Hadise will be the artist who will represent Turkey to the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow, Russia.
Hadise was selected internally by TRT, the Turkish broadcaster, and a press conference will be held soon – maybe in the next week.
23 year old Hadise was born in Antwerp, Belgium, where her parents migrated from Turkey. She started her music career when she was just 17 years old when participated in the Belgian version of the show ‘Pop Idol’. Just after this, she released her first single called ‘Sweat’. Since then she has released two full albums containing pop and r’n’b songs.
Hadise has BA in Marketing and she speaks five languages: Turkish, Dutch, English, French and German.
Although in 2006 Hadise said she would never take part in the Eurovision Song Contest, especially after her friend Kate Ryan failing to make it into the finals, in 2009 Hadise said she would like to take part in the contest representing Turkey.
In April 2008, it was announced that Hadise will host the Belgium version of the show X-Factor.
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