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Serhat

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About

Quick Facts

Name
Ahmet Serhat Hacıpaşalıoğlu

Born
24 October 1964

Nationality
🇹🇷 Turkish

National Selection
Internal selection 2019
Internal selection 2016

In Eurovision
2019 Tel Aviv
2016 Stockholm

Song
Say na na na (2019)
I didn’t know (2016)

Biography

Serhat is a Turkish singer, songwriter, composer, producer and television presenter. He was born in Istanbul. He originally studied dentistry, but his career in showbusiness started when he established a production company in 1994. He produced the show Riziko!, a Turkish version of the American show Jeopardy!. He hosted the show himself and received several awards for it.
 
While keeping on hosting shows, Serhat began a career in music as well in 1997. That was the year he released his debut single “Rüya”. He sang a duet with Viktor Lazlo in 2005, “Total disguise”, and with Tamara Gverdtstiteli in 2008. It took him until 2014 to release a new single, “Je m’adore”. Serhat’s working field had now changed to France and Germany. The song topped several dance charts in Germany, France, the UK and Switzerland.
 
In 2016, Serhat represented San Marino in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song “I didn’t know”. Although he did not reach the final, a disco version of the song reached the US dance charts. In 2018, Serhat re-released “Total disguise”, but now in duet with Helena Paparizou.
 
In 2019, Serhat represented San Marino again with the song “Say na na na”. The song became the best scoring song for San Marino so far. In October 2020, the Spanish version of the song, “Di Na Na Na”, with Spanish lyrics by Adolfo Caiman, was released in a music video.
 
In 2023, Serhat co-wrote the song “Unsaid” together with Jens Geerts. It was released on single by Belgian singer Els Deschepper.

Entries

Say Na Na Na

Country
🇸🇲 San Marino

Year
2019

Language
English
Turkish

Lyrics
Serhat Hacıpaşalıoğlu
Mary Susan Applegate

Music
Serhat Hacıpaşalıoğlu

Backings
Giulia Wahn
Chantal Hartmann
Inès Schubert

Dancers
Johan D. Seil
Sebastián Millepied

Results Semi

Points: 150
Position: 8
Running order: 17

Results Finals

Points: 77
Position: 19
Running order: 7

I didn’t know

Country
🇸🇲 San Marino

Year
2016

Language
English

Lyrics
Nektarios Tyrakis

Music
Olcayto Ahmet Tuğsuz

Backings
Caroline Hauwel
Ellia Palazzi
Emilie Weber
Jessica Fagniot
Ophelie Crispin

Results Semi

Points: 12
Position: 68
Running order: 8

Results Finals

Points: –
Position: –
Running order: –