Sezgi Olgac

Born on September 3rd of 1979, Sezgi Olgaç has been singing jazz professionally since 2004. After graduating from Istanbul University Business Administration Faculty, she had the chance to study with Sibel Köse and Randy Esen in their jazz vocal workshop and continued private lessons with both of them seperately. Later she took ear training lessons from Donovan Mixon and studied vocal technique with Behçet Barbaros Tastan. In 2006, she won the second place in Nardis Jazz Club Young Jazz Vocals contest and represented Turkey in Lady Summertime, an international jazz vocal contest held in Finland.Since 2004, she's been performing in various jazz clubs and venues in Istanbul such as Nardis Jazz Club, Gramofon, Naima Jazz Club, Tunel KV... So far, she had the privilege to share the stage with fantastic jazz musicians such as Neset Ruacan, Önder Focan, Emin Findikoglu, Cem Aksel, Cezmi Basegmez, Kamil Erdem, Elvan Aracı, Raci Pismisoglu, Can Ayer, Erdal Akyol, Mehmet Cem Tuncer, Bilal Karaman, Ferit Odman, Kagan Yildiz and many others...She took place in three albums as lead vocalist:* "S.O.S." in "Divan", an album by Orient Expressions (DJ Yakuza, Richard Hamer, Cem Yildiz & Murat Uncuoglu)* "Gecmiyor Zaman" in "Barda Movie Soundtrack" by Selim Demirdelen.* "Herkes Gibi" in "Dut Ağacı" by Selim Demirdelen.Recently, each Friday and Saturday she's been singing jazz standards at Beyoglu K.V. with Emre Tankal on guitar and Adem Gulsen on piano & keyboard.