Yasemin Mori

Yasemin Mori
Yasemin Mori
	Performing during her concert in Ankara (October 2013)
Background information
Birth name	Yasemin Aygün Savgı
Born	4 March 1982 (age 42)
Origin	Ankara, Turkey
Genres	Alternative rock, indie rock
Occupation	Singer-songwriter
Instrument	Vocals
Years active	2008–present
Labels	Irmak Plak (2008); Balet Plak (2009); Dokuz Sekiz (2012–16); Sony (2017);
Website	myspace.com/yasemori

Yasemin Aygün Savgı (born 4 March 1982), better known as Yasemin Mori, is a Turkish alternative rock singer.

Biography

As daughter of military architect father and Edirne-born mother worked as a sales chief on Turkish Airlines, her original last name was Savgı. She chooses to go by the scene alias mori, which means girl in various ethnic Balkan Turkic dialects, and which was a name she was called by many of her friends as a young girl.

She composed her first song when she was a teenager with contributions of her elder sister's music record share. At a Kings of Convenience concert on Istanbul on July 6, 2005, she invaded the stage by dancing on her own. Her first album Hayvanlar was released on 10 July 2008 by Irmak Plak. Mori released her second studio album Deli Bando in October 2012 after three years of development, working with members of Korhan Futacı ve Kara Orkestra and Boğaziçi Jazz Choir.

Mori released her third album Finnari Kakaraska in March 2015, featuring Gel by Ajda Pekkan and Kanatları Gümüş Yavru Bir Kuş, a poem by Nazım Hikmet.

She occasionally shares her works and announcements via her own Tumblr page since August 2009, as 2004 graduate of the Department of Graphic Design at Bilkent University.^[1]

As having relationship with fellow music producer Serhat Şensesli since 2017^{[citation needed]}, she gave birth to her first child, Milan on 10 July 2020.^[2] In spite of she once was against the marriage system, she married with Emre Irmak in May 2024, producer of her first album Hayvanlar.

Discography

Studio albums

Hayvanlar (2008)
Deli Bando (2012)
Finnari Kakaraska (2015)
Estrella (2018)

Singles

Dünya (2012)
Muşta (Ç.A.K. live) (2013)
Yine Buluşuruz (2016)
Rampa Stampa (2020)
Beni Bana Bırak (2020)
Maviye (2021)
Kırmızı Lavlar (2022)

Other works

Yasemin Mori features most of these works at her concerts, but she did not intend to release them on a new album, as she stated on MTV Turkey's talk show BeniMTV broadcast in October 2009, until she started working on development of Deli Bando in 2010.

Bir Beyaz Balina (A white whale)
Can Cambaz (Glass junglor)
Dünya Her Gün Caz Yapar (The world makes jazz everyday)
Hey Baksana (Hey let you look)
Karamel (Caramel)
Mutsuz Böcek (Sad bug)
Uzay Kuşu (Space Bird)

References

^ "Bilkent News".
^ "Yasemin Mori on Instagram: "👁🌞💙 bugün oğlumuz Milan'ın dünyadaki 1. ayı, ona annelik yapmak dünyanın en güzel duygusu! bir mestliktir gidiyor, iyi ki doğdun…"". Instagram. Archived from the original on 26 December 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2020.

(in Turkish) Official Tumblog

[1] "Bilkent News".

[2] "Yasemin Mori on Instagram: "👁🌞💙 bugün oğlumuz Milan'ın dünyadaki 1. ayı, ona annelik yapmak dünyanın en güzel duygusu! bir mestliktir gidiyor, iyi ki doğdun…"". Instagram. Archived from the original on 26 December 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2020.

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