Born İzel Çeliköz on 29 April 1969 in Yalova, the Turkish pop singer known as İzel rose to fame as a member of pop trio İzel-Çelik-Ercan, but began carving out a solo career following the group's split in 1993. She released her debut studio album Adak in 1995 and reigned supreme throughout the 1990s and 2000s, notching up a string of popular albums such as 1999's Bir Küçük Aşk, which spawned a national hit in "Yok Yere," her fourth arabesque-tinted album Bebek (2001), for which she worked with Altan Çetin, and her sixth album Bir Dilek Tut Benim İçin, which was released in 2005. She continued to release albums sporadically into the 2010s, with Aşk En Büyüktür Her Zaman arriving in 2012 and Kendiliğinden Olmalı in 2019. In 2024, her "Düşer O" track from the aforementioned 2012 LP Aşk En Büyüktür Her Zaman was picked up by a new online audience and found its way onto several charts, including Billboard's Top 25 Singles - Turkey.
