Zeynep Bastık

Zeynep Bastık — Biography

Zeynep Bastık is a singer, songwriter and actress who rose through cover versions on YouTube before moving to her own songs. Her breakthrough came in 2019 with her cover of rapper Ezhel's Felaket, and she now works as a solo pop artist whose sound leans on acoustic and electronic textures. Sources give her birth differently: 5 May 1991 in Istanbul, or 8 July 1993 in Çanakkale.

Her musical path has several phases. Her family moved to İzmir when she was three, and she finished middle and high school there; in 2010 she went professional with the İzmir cover band Jackpot, playing cities such as İzmir, Eskişehir and Bursa until 2012. For a time she also danced with Anadolu Ateşi. She sang on Murat Dalkılıç's Lüzumsuz Savaş and stayed on as his vocalist for three years. With his backing she released Fırça, her first single with her own words and music, on 31 October 2014, and went solo. Her YouTube versions of songs by Fikri Karayel, Harun Kolçak and Ümit Sayın prepared the ground for 2019, the year of the duet Bırakman Doğru mu? with Anıl Piyancı; Ara followed in 2022 and Eyvah in 2023.

On screen she appeared in series including Adı Mutluluk, Yasak Elma, Sil Baştan and Umuda Kelepçe Vurulmaz. She was the face of Adidas in 2019 and Elidor in 2020, and in 2021 hosted Zeynep Bastık ve Konukları on Exxen. She married her manager Tolga Akış in July 2021, and they divorced in July 2022.