Bahar Kizil
Bahar Kizil (Turkish: Bahar Kızıl; born 5 October 1988) is a German singer and songwriter of Turkish descent, best known as one of the founding members of the girl group Monrose, which won the fifth season of the German version of Popstars.
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| Also known as | Bahar |
| Born | 5 October 1988 Freiburg, West Germany |
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| Years active | 2006–present |
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Early life
Born in Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg, Kizil is from a Turkish family from Antalya,[1] and her first name, Bahar, means "spring" (the season) in Turkish. At age 12, she started with ballet. In her town, she sang with four different bands prior to the Popstars casting.
Career
Kizil is one of the three winners of the fifth German Popstars season and was a member of the resulting group Monrose, together with Senna Gammour and Mandy Capristo. After their break-up in 2011, she started her solo-career in 2013 and premiered with her song "Drank" featuring SpaceBoyz. In the same year, her song "Medusa" featuring Nitro came out. In 2015, she released her debut album Bullets of Love, which did not peaked the Official Charts. In 2017, she participated on the German dance show Dance Dance Dance and teamed up with No Angels singer Sandy Mölling.
After a long music break, Kizil came back in 2019 as an lead vocalist in the pop group Traumfrequenz. In the same year, she released her solo songs "What Eyes Cannot See" and "C'est ma vie". In 2020, she decided to sing in German and released the songs "Die Fremde", "Blaue Stunde", and "NOS" on YouTube and Spotify. She is currently working on her second album.
Discography
With Monrose
Studio albums
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |||
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| GER | AUT | SWI | |||
| Bullets of Love |
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Compilation
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |||
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| GER | AUT | SWI | |||
| Die 10 Gebote (Musical by Dieter Falk, Michael Künzel) |
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As solo artist
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | ||||||||||||
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| GER | GER BC | AUT | SWI | ||||||||||||
| "Memories" (feat. Cristóbal Gálvez Moreno) |
2009 | — | — | — | — | Memories (CD single) | |||||||||
| "Drank" (feat. SpaceBoyz) |
2013 | — | 3 | — | — | Bullets of Love | |||||||||
| "Medusa" (feat. Nitro) |
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| "Love Bullet" | 2014 | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||
| "Gossip Bitch" | — | 11 | — | — | |||||||||||
| "Revo" | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||
| "Bulletproof" | 2015 | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||
| "What Eyes Cannot See" | 2019 | — | — | — | — | Non-album singles | |||||||||
| "C'est Ma Vie" | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||
| "Die Fremde" | 2020 | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||
| "Blaue Stunde" | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||
| "NOS" | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||
| "Flieder" | 2021 | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||
| "Genug" | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||
| "Zaman" | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||
| "—" denotes a title that was not released or did not chart in that territory. | |||||||||||||||
With Traumfrequenz
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | |||||||||||
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| GER | AUT | SWI | ||||||||||||
| "Ohne dich" | 2019 | — | — | — | Non-album singles | |||||||||
| "Hunderttausend" | — | — | — | |||||||||||
| "Mon chéri" | — | — | — | |||||||||||
| "—" denotes a title that was not released or did not chart in that territory. | ||||||||||||||
Other appearances
| Year | Song | Album |
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| 2011 | "Daheim" | Non-album single |
| "Königinnen" | Hanni und Nanni 2: Original Soundtrack | |
| 2012 | "Marching Over You" | Non-album single |
| 2016 | "Ist dein kleines Herz noch für mich frei?" (with Whiskydenker) | Wir bleiben hier |
Filmography
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2013 | Promi Shopping Queen | Herself | Participant; 1 episode |
| 2017 | Dance Dance Dance | Herself | Participant |
References
- "Official website of Bahar Kizil". Archived from the original on 19 September 2009.
