Sila

Sila was born on Jun 17, 1980 in Turkey. Sila's big-screen debut came with in .

Sila Gençoglu is a Turkish singer and musician. She is mononymously known by her first name, 'Sila'.Sila was born in Denizli. She worked before as a producer, lyricist and background singer for many Turkish artists, such as Kenan Dogulu and Emel Müftüoglu. In 2007, she released her debut album Sila. The first single, "...Dan Sonra", was the biggest hit song of the year in Turkey, spending 3 months at number one on the music charts, and reaching 79 in the European charts. The song's video was the 12th most watched video from 2007 to 2008 worldwide. The second single from the album, "Kenar Süsü", reached second place in the Turkish charts.Sila's first national studio album. It achieved great success and helped her to win national awards with the title of "Best New Artist" and "Best New Album". Before her studio album, Sila wrote a song with the popular Turkish female artist Sezen Aksu. The song was the soundtrack of the television series Sila (2006), which is about the difficulties of an eastern Turkish woman named "Sila". After her album's success, a new television series which is airing on ATV, offered her a generic song just like "Sila", and before airing on TV, she wrote the song with Efe Bahadir.Sila's first international studio album, a corporation with the Colombian group Ciclon as the 2nd studio album of Drum Project. The producer of the album was Ozan Dogulu. The album was released in May 2008.