Serhat
© EBU/Thomas Hanses About Quick Facts NameAhmet Serhat Hacıpaşalıoğlu Born24 October 1964 Nationality🇹🇷 Turkish National SelectionInternal selection 2019Internal selection 2016 In Eurovision2019 Tel Aviv2016 Stockholm SongSay na na na (2019)I didn’t know (2016) Biography Serhat is a Turkish singer, songwriter, composer, producer and television presenter. He was born in Istanbul. He originally studied dentistry, but his career in showbusiness started when he established a production company in 1994. He produced the show Riziko!, a Turkish version of the American show Jeopardy!. He hosted the show himself and received several awards for it. While keeping on hosting shows, Serhat began a career in music as well in 1997. That was the year he released his debut single “Rüya”. He sang a duet with Viktor Lazlo in 2005, “Total disguise”, and with Tamara Gverdtstiteli in 2008. It took him until 2014 to release a new single, “Je m’adore”. Serhat’s working field had now changed to France and Germany. The song topped several dance charts in Germany, France, the UK and Switzerland. In 2016, Serhat represented San Marino in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song “I didn’t know”. Although he did not reach the final, a disco version of the song reached the US dance charts. In 2018, Serhat re-released “Total disguise”, but now in duet with Helena Paparizou. In 2019, Serhat represented San Marino again with the song “Say na na na”. The song became the best scoring song for San Marino so far. In October 2020, the Spanish version of the song, “Di Na Na Na”, with Spanish lyrics by Adolfo Caiman, was released in a music video. In 2023, Serhat co-wrote the song “Unsaid” together with Jens Geerts. It was released on single by Belgian singer Els Deschepper. Entries Say Na Na Na Country🇸🇲 San Marino Year2019 LanguageEnglishTurkish LyricsSerhat HacıpaşalıoğluMary Susan Applegate MusicSerhat Hacıpaşalıoğlu BackingsGiulia WahnChantal HartmannInès Schubert DancersJohan D. SeilSebastián Millepied Results Semi Points: 150Position: 8Running order: 17 Results Finals Points: 77Position: 19Running order: 7 https://youtu.be/d_iEis_ZRoQ I didn’t know Country🇸🇲 San Marino Year2016 LanguageEnglish LyricsNektarios Tyrakis MusicOlcayto Ahmet Tuğsuz BackingsCaroline HauwelEllia PalazziEmilie WeberJessica FagniotOphelie Crispin Results Semi Points: 12Position: 68Running order: 8 Results Finals Points: –Position: –Running order: – https://youtu.be/HzPkDb2FSeg