Q-Bra

Q-BRA’s introduction to music was through the piano lessons she started taking at the age of 4. After spending her early teens reading sheet music as a hobby in her free-time, Q-BRA started studying at the conservatory and extended the field of interest to singing, acting and performing. In 2000s, after completing a BA degree in musical theatre and performing arts management, Q-BRA became a permanent member of Garsongs Show Group, which toured locally and internationally, performing classic and independent pieces of musical theatre.

Q-BRA is one of the pioneering LGBTQIA+ DJs in Istanbul. She regularly performs in the local scene, some of her past gigs in 2018 include clubs such as MAMA, Kiki, Babylon, Arkaoda, Zor, Mecra, Bina, Roxy, Kitsch, Fotini, Love Dance Point and Suma Beach. During Amsterdam TransPride 2018, Q-BRA participated in Trans United Nederlands’ Symposium as a keynote speaker, and played a set for Red Light Radio, as well as performing in PROUD Nederlands’ float at Canal Pride Amsterdam.

Her style is eclectic yet fluent. Q-BRA’s range and sensitivity, rooted in classical music education, can easily be recognized while she is playing her sets post-genre, just at ease with house as she is with ethnic sounds or orchestral scores, mixing dance-floor classics with techno beats the next.