winner, 2003
Sertab Erener
Sertab Erener represented Turkey at Eurovision 2003 in Riga with “Everyway That I Can”, and won.
- who
- Turkish singer
- born
- 4 December 1964, Istanbul, Turkey
- contest
- 2003
- win
- 2003
- music
- pop, dance-pop
- voice
- soprano
- active
- since 1992
- record labels
- Motéma Music
- sang for
- Turkey
Biography
Sertab Erener is a Turkish singer, songwriter and composer with a coloratura soprano voice and a classical training. Erener started out as a backing singer for Sezen Aksu, made a debut album, Sakin Ol!, in 1992, and became known as a Turkish pop artist through the 1990s, sometimes mixing Western and Eastern music.
In 2003 Erener won the contest in Riga with “Everyway That I Can”. It is Turkey’s only win so far.
Written by ESC Predictions, 8 October 2026. Sources: Wikipedia, “Sertab Erener”.
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At Eurovision
One song, and what became of it.
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2003 Riga
“Everyway That I Can”
Winner Won the contest with 167 points, ahead of 25 other songs.
- Sung in
- English
- Written by
- Demir Demirkan, Sertab Erener
- Running order
- 4th of 26
- Age on the night
- 38
Play: Sertab Erener — “Everyway That I Can”, the winning performance at Eurovision 2003 hear it YouTube the contest’s channel Spotify search Apple Music search
The story of Eurovision 2003: Three songs within three points, and nothing at all for Britain
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- 2004 Small disasters When it went wrong
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- 2003 The result
Turkey won, for the first time, 28 years after it first entered. Sertab Erener's "Everyway That I Can" finished on 167 points.
- 2004 Small disasters
And on her way to hand over the trophy, the reigning winner, Sertab Erener, got her shoe jammed in a speaker grille at the side of the stage. Stagehands had to free her.
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