Role Singer | Name Esmeray Diriker | |
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Albums Kagit Mendil, En Iyileriyle Esmeray, Askerin Turkusu - Oglum Similar People Semiha Yanki, Ayla Dikmen, Melike Demirag, Seyyal Taner, Ercan Turgut | ||
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Esmeray Diriker (25 February 1949 – 25 March 2002) was a Turkish singer.
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Biography
Esmeray is of Afro-Turkish descent was born in the Emirgan district of Istanbul. In 1960, she dropped out of her last year of Emirgan Secondary School, to join the Istanbul community theatre, and performed on stage for the first time in a children's play. She continued to perform at the Istanbul community theatre until 1965. After that, she went on to performing at bigger, more noted theatres, beginning in Dün Gece Yolda Giderken Çok Komik Birşey Oldu (Last Night Something Really Funny Happened On The Streets) at the Dormen Theatre. She also performed in Avni Dilligil, Özlem, Özlem Taşdelenler, and Sezer Sezin theatres. She starred in her last theatrical production in 1974, alongside Muammer Karaca in (Mart Bakanı). She then moved on to cinematic productions, and the same year, starred in Sev Kardeşim and Zilli Nazife, also making a guest appearance in Unutama Beni.
Esmeray started singing as an amateur in a choir produced by Neriman Altındağ Tüfekçi. She was the wife of Şemi Diriker (alias "Erol Tanır"), a Turkish composer. She returned to the theatre at Nedim Saban theatre in 1995 with Oscar. She performed in series of Alıştık Artık with Ayşegül Atik and Ali Atik in the first half of the 1990s and Reyting Hamdi with Hamdi Alkan from the second half of the 1990s until 2002. Her final performance was in Küçük Besleme as "Şule" in 2001.
She died of brain cancer in 2002.
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