Zeynep Bastık Turkish Singer Born 1993 in Çanakkale

Early life

Zeynep Bastık was born on 8 July 1993 in Çanakkale, Turkey. Music ran through her family, and her mother taught folk dance. At fifteen she joined the dance company Fire of Anatolia, where she remained for eight years. Over time she also took up Latin dance and pole dance, and she performed in musical theatre productions as an actress.

Career

Bastık's professional work in music began in 2010 with a band called Jackpot, based in İzmir, which played mostly cover versions. Until 2012 the group appeared on stages in several cities, including İzmir, Eskişehir and Bursa.

She next found work as a backing singer. Her voice can be heard on Murat Dalkılıç's "Lüzumsuz Savaş" and on "Delili Yok" by Anıl Piyancı, and she worked as Dalkılıç's backing vocalist for three years. With his help she put out her first single, "Fırça", in 2014, and a second, "Şahaneyim", in 2017. She also sang "Ben Kalp Sen", a duet that Dalkılıç composed for the television series Aşk Yeniden. Alongside her music she has taken small acting parts in Turkish series including Adı Mutluluk, Yasak Elma, Sil Baştan, Umuda Kelepçe Vurulmaz and Yuvamdaki Düşman.

Her wider audience grew from videos on her YouTube channel, where she shared covers of songs by artists such as Fikri Karayel, Harun Kolçak and Ümit Sayın. Her cover of Ezhel's "Felaket" is the one most often named as the point at which she became widely known. A commentator, Tolga Akyıldız, has pointed to the breadth of material she covered, from Sezen Aksu and Tarkan to Şebnem Ferah and Ajda Pekkan, and to her many duets as factors in her popularity on digital music platforms. Her duet with Can Ozan, who started out in the same period, is also said to have raised his profile.

In 2020 she released Akustikler, a set in which every track is an acoustic version. She worked on it with the composers Emir Can İğrek, Oğuzhan Koç and Sezen Aksu. For the song "Çukur" she wrote the words and shared the composing with Çağrı Telkıvıran. She later wrote and composed "Kendi Yolumuzda" with Serhat Şensesli, made with the brand Elidor for International Women's Day, and she took part in writing and composing some of the songs on her album Zeynodisco. Her later singles include "Ara" (2022) and "Lan" (2024).

Bastık began in rock, moved toward acoustic material and later added electronic sounds. Her released recordings are classed as pop.

She appeared in advertising campaigns for Adidas in 2019, for Elidor and Penti in 2020, for Getir in 2021 and for Vodafone in 2022.

As of May 2025 her YouTube channel had around 2.9 million subscribers, the largest audience she has on any platform listed for her.

Personal life

Bastık married Tolga Akış in 2021, and the marriage ended in divorce in 2022. In 2026 she married Serkay Tütüncü.