Name
Sevda Hamzacebi
Biography
Sevda Hamzacebi (born in 1983) is a singer and clarinet player who performed with various bands both in Istanbul and Berlin in the last ten years. She has been writing songs ever since she could remember, now with babelfis, her indie-pop duo which recently got MusicBoard Berlin’s Hinterhalt scholarship for a special performance in cooperation with Deutsche Oper in November 2023. Hamzacebi lives and works in Berlin since 2018.
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Artist Statement
Hamzacebi pursues all kinds of stories that she has grown up listening to. Deriving from both western and eastern roots and a scope of other personal influences, she focuses on melding all these experiences together through new forms of musical and poetic expressions.