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Şebnem Paker Odabaş (Istanbul, June 1977) is a Turkish guitarist, singer and music teacher.
Biography
She attended the Department of Classical Guitar at Istanbul University State Conservatory between 1992 and 1996. Later, she studied singing at Marmara University Music Department.
Paker represented Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest 1996 and Eurovision Song Contest 1997. Her entry in 1997, the song Dinle, composed by Levent Çoker and written by Mehtap Alnıtemiz, achieved a 3rd-place result, Turkey's best result in the contest until their first win in 2003. She released her only album, also called Dinle, in August 1997.
She is currently a teacher at a high school in Istanbul, Turkey. She has also coauthored a textbook that is currently being used in art high schools in Turkey.