Her mother, Rüçhan Çamay, was a singer and stage artist, and her father, Turgut Demirağ, was a film producer and director.
Due to the fame brought by this song, she ranked 5th with 870 votes in Hey magazine's "Promising Female Artists of the Year" list in 1974.
Demirağ's fame increased with the release of 45 RPM singles of songs like "Merhaba" (1975), "Hadi Canım Sen De" (1975), "Ağlamak Ayıp Değil" (1976), "Ninni" (1976), and "Pervane ile Işık" (1977).
[3] In 1978, she starred alongside Tarık Akan and Tuncel Kurtiz in Sürü, a film with a screenplay written by Yılmaz Güney, where she portrayed Berivan, a sick and mute Kurdish girl.
The opening music of Sürü, composed by Zülfü Livaneli and with lyrics by Şivan Perwer, was later performed in Kurdish by Melike Demirağ under the title "Brindarım" (Turkish: "Yaralıyım").