Işın Funda Büyükkaraca was born into a Turkish Cypriot family which had emigrated to the United Kingdom.

[12][13] In April 2019, it was revealed that Karaca was paying a ₺1 million debt left by Sedat Doğan.

Earlier, she had changed her daughter's family name from Doğan to Büyükkaraca via a court decision.

She didn't pass pre-eliminations for Eurovision but she represented Turkey in the OGAE Second Chance Contest and became 7th with 104 points.

In November 2009, she modeled for Adil Işık's 2009–2010 Fall-Winter catalogue "Love My Body" collection.

[21] As she got her fame by working with Sezen Aksu as her backing vocalist, she released her debut album, Anadilim Aşk (My Native Language is Love), with help of her.

After the first album was released, she contributed to several albums like Selmi Andak's "Uluslararası Ödüllü Selmi Andak Şarkıları", Hakkı Yalçın's "O Şarkılar", Alpay's "Sessiz Kalma" and collection of "Yeni Türkiye Coşku Dolu".

She also contributed in charity album Yaşasın Okulumuz which aims to make schools or improve the conditions of them, mostly in sub-urban areas.

They performed "Eski Bir Resim" in RnB, electribe, house, Reggaeton and electronic style.

[22] In June 2008, she performed a cover of Esmeray's hit "Unutama Beni" for the theme song of ATV's "Elif" TV series.

She worked with Sibel Alaş, Erdem Yörük, Erol Temizel and Zeki Güner on the album.

[24] In 2012, she announced the title of her pop album Her Şey Aşktan (English: Everything is because of love) from her Twitter account.

[26] On 18 March 2013, she and 16 other singers sang "Çanakkale Türküsü", a special song for 98th anniversary of Gallipoli Memorial Day.

On 30 January 2015, she has released her first Turkish classical music album, "Ey Aşkın Güzel Kızı" (English: Beautiful daughter of love).

[34] She had a leading role in a movie called "Sen Ne Dilersen" (International English title:Whatever You Wish) directed by Cem Başeskioğlu [tr].

She starred with Işık Yenersu [tr], Zeynep Eronat, Yıldız Kenter and Fikret Kuşkan.

[35] She was to act in "Herşeyin Bittiği Yerden" directed by Turkish film director and actor Ezel Akay, where she co-starred with Okan Bayülgen.

In 2007 she and Vatan Şaşmaz hosted "Kadın Her Yaşta Güzeldir" which was a beauty contest between mothers.

In 2007 she also became the musical coach of Vatan Şaşmaz in first season of "Şarkı Söylemek Lazım", in which popular non-singer celebrities sing songs for the show.

In 2009, she appeared as a guest actress in Turkish adaption of The Golden Girls, Altın Kızlar, with her role Nurse Binnaz.

[37] As of 2 March 2005 she was writing a blog named "Kaleminden" (From her pen) on her official website,[38] that is mainly about news of her works but occasionally contains her point of view on daily events.

The articles sometimes concern about global awarenesses or national problems with a wide range of interests from politics to music industry.

Later she told that it is a diet book named "Büyümek İçin Küçülmek Lazım" (Need to get smaller to grow) and will be published when she is 36 in size.

[42] In 2005, she rebuilt the library of "Gölcük Kız Meslek High School" which was damaged in 1999 İzmit earthquake.

[44][45] In 2006 she contributed in Yaşasın Okulumuz project, which aims to make schools or improve the conditions of them, mostly in sub-urban areas.

She also joined the charity night aired on Show TV, where she and other voluntary artists answered calls for donations.