Şebnem Paker

She attended the Department of Classical Guitar at Istanbul University State Conservatory between 1992 and 1996. Later, she studied singing at Marmara University Music Department.[2]

Paker represented Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest 1996 and Eurovision Song Contest 1997. Her entry in 1997, the song "Dinle", composed by Levent Çoker and written by Mehtap Alnıtemiz, achieved a 3rd-place result, Turkey's best result in the contest until their first win in 2003. She released her only album, also called Dinle, in August 1997.

In 1998, she once again competed in the national final organized by TRT and expressed his idea of achieving a more successful result at Eurovision Song Contest every year. However, she could not achieve the success she aimed with the piece titled "Çal", which was thought to attract the attention of European audiences with its moving melody embellished with ethnic Turkish instruments she used, and could not gain the right to represent the Eurovision Song Contest that year.

She graduated from Marmara University Music Education Singing Department in 2000. She has been working as a music teacher since 2004, after working for 4 years in private educational institutions affiliated to the Ministry of National Education. She has been teaching music at Avni Akyol Fine Arts High School until 2018 and at Aydın Doğan Fine Arts High School since 2018.

As of 2018, she is a teacher at a high school in Istanbul, Turkey.[3] She has also coauthored a textbook that is currently being used in art high schools in Turkey.[4]