Chakar was born into a Kurdish family from Mardin, Turkey, in 1981 and attended the fine arts high school in Amed (Diyarbakır), where she also took cello lessons.

[1] At the competitions party she was singing the song Ich Liebe Dich (I love you) by Ludwig van Beethoven, which has impressed one of the jurors to the extent he gave her a CD of the opera singer Maria Callas.

[3] She decided to follow up on her studies in Italy in 2004[1] when an Italian opera manager invited her to enroll into the Conservatorio F. Morlacchi [It] in Perugia[4] from where she graduated with a master's degree.

[6] Later she sang as Rosina in The Barber of Seville, Titania in the A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare or Megacles in the L'Olympiade by Josef Mysliveček.

[12] The Turkish daily Yeni Safak claimed that the reason given for the cancellation was the fact that she wanted to go on a stage that was free of charge, while trying to sell tickets for a price.