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If her friends didn't push her into the audition for the school's rock band when she was 15, Djanan would still be in the wardrobe of her home in south Turkey where she used to spend hours singing between the sound-proof winter coats. Ultimately, she would spend the next 3 years performing with her band in their home town, covering the songs they loved to listen to. The band released their own album before finishing working together and heading off to different cities in the country. By age 18, Djanan had started making her way up North, first moving to Istanbul where she performed in clubs, bars and festivals. In addition to singing with a rock band, she was part of a quartet, composed of piano and 3 vocals. The quartet performed a diverse repertoire from musical theatre pieces to Italian arias.She fell in love with London when she came for 3 days as a tourist and decided to move there simply to be a part of the music scene. Within the first 6 months, she started collaborating and writing songs with different musicians and bands such as Oojami, Group Bazaar, Viktor Mastoridis, and more. At this time she was also singing jazz and pop covers in and outside London. She has performed in major London venues like Notting Hill Arts Club, Islington Carling Academy, Electrowerkz, Albany, and Shunt Vaultz.Djanan writes her songs in both English and her mother tongue, Turkish. She believes that languages already have their own melodies and musical attitudes; and what the song wants to say almost determines which language the piece will be formed in, without requiring much thought. When gibberish works better, she just goes for it.After experimenting for years with different styles and sounds, Djanan is currently recording her new songs with Sam Ritchie, and Tansay Omar; in close collaboration with Sajib Azad. She believes that the different musical journeys she has taken so far have helped her in discovering how to give personality to her songs, in a way that she will feel closest to them. “I don’t love music or have any conscious movement towards it. It has just always been a dominant element in my life; determining, influencing or enhancing my moods. It was never in the background†Djanan says. That's why you can see her bursting into a song in the bus, on the street, in the supermarket... And that's why she keeps on doing covers as well as her own music. She performs a number of gigs every month, with a repertoire consisting of jazz and swing standards.She believes that there is an attractive discipline in singing covers, as opposed to having the ultimate freedom to express yourself the way you want to with your own music. “You need to stay loyal to the core feeling of the song even when you're adding your style to it. It is like spending some great time with someone else's children and making sure you take them back home safely.â€