Adil Şan

Şan was born "Adel Alıssa" in the Turkmen Mountains in Syria. His father is a Syrian Turkmen from the countryside of Aleppo and his mother is of Turkish origin from Gaziantep. He did not attend school, however, he was self-taught in the Turkish language.^[2]

In 2003 he launched his first Turkish folk album entitled "Çobanbey Elleri". Soon after establishing his music career, he moved to Turkey and married his wife on September 12, 2006. He obtained Turkish citizenship and changed his surname to "Şan". By 2013 he launched his second album "Hattuç". He was Syria's first representative in the Turkvision Song Contest in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2015. In the same year he also published a book on Syrian Turkmen culture. His third album "Dilimiz" was launched in 2016.^[2]

He is married and has one son named Oğuzhan.^[2]