Ayshen's Biography

Talented and ambitious, are just two words to describe Ayshen, a 27 year old British artist from a Turkish Cypriot background. She was born in East London, but went onto live and grow up in Essex. Ayshen enjoys spending time with her huge family and is able to speak fluent Turkish.

From a young age, Ayshen has always been a keen sports woman, but this once interest in PE lessons, turned into a more serious hobby, when sadly her father had a heart attack and was cared for by The London Chest hospital. Since this experience, she has taken part in many charity events; however this one was one that was the closest to her heart, so she now runs for the hospital and raises money for new equipment, every year.

Her father, a musician from the 1960S, was in a band with his brothers, performing around East London. Growing up in a household filled with culture and different sounds of music. Her influences soon became to transpire into her music. From a young age, she was able to appreciate music from Soul, Motown, Rock and Roll to Reggae. Coming from a family that had various artistic talents, she was given the opportunity to work in studio with her relatives and she soon discovered her singing and writing skills.

Trying to pursue a music career and trying to hold down a full-time job was very demanding; Ayshen being a versatile artist decided to join several agencies and was lucky enough to participate in music videos, commercials and extra work for TV. During this time, she had gained a lot of experience working with top directors and said this time was insightful and felt it deepened her understanding of the industry has a whole. From this experience Ayshen knew her heart was in music and decided to take it further.

For the past four years, she has been part of a girl band called Fe-nix. They wrote all of their own songs and were able to learn difficult and rigorous dance routines. The group supported many major artists on tour such as NDUBZ, Tinchy Stryder and Chipmunk. They released three singles Lady Baby, Swagga and Redlight.

They performed on Big brothers big mouth as well as appearing on Pineapple dance studios. Fe-nix has given Ayshen the confidence and experience to further her as an artist.

She feels that the past four years with Fe-nix have been fundamental years in her career and feel it has enabled her to now pursue a much waited solo career.


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