Niyazi Emre Altuğ (born 14 April 1970) is a Turkish actor and singer.

[1] Emre Altug was born in Levent, Beşiktaş, Istanbul as the second son to a housewife mother and dentist father.

He acted on stage in various plays and sang backing vocals to such established artists like Sezen Aksu, Sertab Erener, Levent Yüksel and Nilüfer, before his first album, titled İbreti Alem was released on 28 August 1998.

In July 2000 he sang a song called Bir de bana sor for Melih Kibar 's album entitled Yadigar.

Emre Altuğ was planning to release an English album, for which he traveled to the US and wanted to start working with Mark Feist and Damon Sharpe[4] (who have worked with such artists like Anastacia or Jennifer Lopez and are the producers and co-writers of the charity song Come Together Now), who found Emre's voice outstanding and started to work on four songs with him.