Serhat - "Say Na Na Na"

Ahmet Serhat Hacıpaşalıoğlu (born 24 October 1964), known as Serhat, is a Turkish singer, songwriter, producer and television presenter. Born and raised in Istanbul, Serhat started his production career by establishing his own company in 1994, End Productions. In the same year, he also started to produce and host a quiz show on TRT called Riziko! (Turkish version of the American quiz show Jeopardy!). In 1997, with his first single, "Rüya-Ben Bir Daha", his musical career began. Beside his other hosting and producing works, he continued his musical career and released "Total Disguise" (duet with Viktor Lazlo) in 2004, "Chocolate Flavour" in 2005, "I Was So Lonely", "No No Never (Moscow-Istanbul)" and "Ya + Ty" (Russian version of "Total Disguise", all three songs were duets with Tamara Gverdtsiteli) in 2008 and "Je m'adore" in 2014. He represented San Marino in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Stockholm singing "I Didn't Know" on 10 May 2016 in the first semi final of Eurovision, but failed to qualify for the final. In 2017, the disco version of the song featuring Martha Wash was released. This version reached number 25 on the Dance Club Songs chart, making Serhat the first Turkish singer to appear on the chart. In 2018, a new version of "Total Disguise" featuring Elena Paparizou was released. He represented San Marino for the second time in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv with "Say Na Na Na". He performed in the first semi final and qualified for the final, placing 8th. In the final, he placed 19th, the best result in Sammarinese Eurovision Song Contest history. A German-language version of the song "Sing Na Na Na" was released in 2019, and the Spanish-language version "Di Na Na Na" in 2020.