About
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
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: –