Date with Odylle

Odylle will be performing in Date Istanbul on 25 January.

Odylle is happy, jazzy, poignant and soft- creamy Dutch jazz vocals on top of a solid Turkish rhythmic cake. How this sweet delight came to be? An exhange semester that got out of hand.

Dutch Fleur Odylle flew from Amsterdam to Istanbul to study at the renowned Bosphorus and Sabanci universities and simply never quite managed to leave.

Child to true hippie parents, Odylle was raised with music and soon a foreigner’s night out in Istanbul turned into the comical song “Istanbul Bana Ne Yaptin” (Istanbul what did you do to me?!). With the help of her friends and some university equipment, Odylle shot an equally cheeky videoclip. The amateur clip turned a little viral, a first festival was interested, and Fleur Odylle got a band together.

The Dutch compositions, Turkish arrangements, English lyrics and universal spirit has proven itself time and again to be a winning mix on- and off stage.

Fleur Odylle: Piano & Vocals Bora Bekiroğlu: Bass Emre Kula: Guitar Koray Üsgülen: Keys Alpar Lü: Drums