Asuman Krause is a German

Germany

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-born former model

Model (person)

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 and singer of mixed Turkish

Turkish people

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 (Circassian) and German

Germans

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-Dutch

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 descent.

Krause grew up in Germany

Germany

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 until the end of middle school. Afterwards she decided to stay with her mother in Turkey

Turkey

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. She then became a model and in March 1998 she won the Miss Turkey

Miss Turkey

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 beauty pageant and then went on to represent Turkey at Miss Universe

Miss Universe

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, winning the Congeniality award.

Giving up her modelling career in favour of a career as a singer in 2006, she released her debut album, Çok Yalnızım (I'm very lonely), with the Turkish record company Seyhan Müzik. It received some radio airplay and was compared with the likes of Burcu Güneş

Burcu Günes

-Early years:Burcu Güneş was born on the 12 of August, 1975 in the city of İzmir. Since her early childhood, Burcu grew up surrounded by music allowing for her early exposure into the music industry. When she composed her first piece at the age of 12, it became clear to her along with those that...

 and Emel Müftüoğlu.

She released her second album, Kukla

Kukla (album)

Kukla is the second album released by German-Turkish singer Asuman Krause, after her debut album Çok Yalnızım.-Track listing:...

(Puppet), this time with another record company, Üçüncügöz Müzik, in 2008. This was met with more success than her previous album, and the first single from that album, also called Kukla reached the 10th position on the Turkish Billboard Charts.

She is hosting Turkish version of Wipeout.

Albums

• Çok Yalnızım (I'm so lonely) (2006, Ozyurt Müzik)
• Kukla
  Kukla (album)
  Kukla is the second album released by German-Turkish singer Asuman Krause, after her debut album Çok Yalnızım.-Track listing:...
  
  (Puppet) (2008, Erol Köse Prodüksiyon)

Singles

Year	Song	Billboard Türkçe Top 20
2006	Tenimizin Uyumu	N/A
2008	Kukla	10

External links

• Asuman Krause on Last.fm