", "Aldırma Deli Gönlüm", "Ateşle Barut", "Sevdam Ağlıyor", "Aslolan Aşktır", "Yanarım", "Zor Kadın" and "Vur Yüreğim" became number-one hits in Turkey.

[1] Her mother Yücel, had studied painting at Istanbul State Fine Arts Academy and graduated in 1957, but did not continue her career after marriage.

[11] She later participated in the 1987 Kuşadası Golden Pigeon Music Competition under her married name, Sertab Altın, and performed the song "Akdeniz".

[15] With Sakin Ol!, she made her position solid in the market, and brought a breath of fresh air to Turkish pop music.

", separate music videos were released for the songs "Aldırma Deli Gönlüm", "Ateşle Barut", "Vurulduk", "Oyun Bitti", "O, Ye" and "Suçluyum".

[29] To promote Lâ'l, Erener gave a concert at the Bostancı Show Center, during which she performed "Der Hölle Rache" from Mozart's The Magic Flute.

[32] In September, she joined the campaign "We Go To the East with 1000 Artists", which was organized by Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and gave concerts in Eastern parts of Turkey.

[41] The songs "Aslolan Aşktır", "Seyrüsefer", "İncelikler Yüzünden", "Aaa" and "Yara" were turned into music videos and Sertab Gibi sold 147,000 copies by August 1997.

[43] In the same month, it was reported that Melih Ayraçman of Sony Music Turkey was planning on introducing Sertab Erener to the European audience with new projects.

[47] Sony and Columbia released Erener's self-titled album in March 1999, which included works such as the poem "Makber" by Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan and Mozart's "Der Hölle Rache".

[48][49] "Yanarım", "Zor Kadın", "Vur Yüreğim" and "Yolun Başında" were the songs from Sertab Erener that were turned into music videos.

[51] Erener was scheduled to perform at Efes Pilsen's 13th establishment anniversary on 16 August, which was set to be followed by a tour inside Turkey, but the concert was cancelled due to the 1999 İzmit earthquake.

She met with President Ahmet Necdet Sezer and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and a reception was organized to celebrate her victory.

[75] On 26 September, she performed with a number of artists at the Royal Albert Hall in a fundraising event to help Iraqi children with leukemia.

[80] In the same year, due to the emergence of problems "in terms of singer-company relationship", she ended her contract with Sony Music and together with Demir Demirkan found the label Simya Müzik.

[82] It topped D&R's List of Best-Selling Albums[86] and sold 160,000 copies, with the songs "Aşk Ölmez, Biz Ölürüz", "Satılık Kalpler Şehri" and "Kim Haklıysa" turned into music videos.

[90] In the same year, the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Turkey, released the textbook "They succeeded" for the fourth grade social studies and Erener was named in the book as the person who "won the first place for our country at the Eurovision contest for the first time".

[92] In the same month, Erener performed the song "Çocuklar Gibi" for Ali Kocatepe's tribute album 41 Kere Maşallah.

[95] In January 2007, it was announced that Erener would perform at a jazz concert on 1 February 2007, but the event was cancelled as she fell ill with pneumonia .

In September, to celebrate her 15th year of career, she gave a concert at Cemil Topuzlu Open-Air Theater together with Sezen Aksu, Levent Yüksel, Nil Karaibrahimgil, Fahir Atakoğlu, Özge Fışkın and Demir Demirkan.

Hürriyet's Onur Baştürk named the album the best work of 2008 praising how she told "her life's story in songs and expressed her philosophy".

In 2007-08 she discussed working on a new album,[107][108] which she later recorded in Los Angeles together with Demir Demirkan and released it in June 2009 under the title Painted on Water.

[114][115] In 2010, Erener's name appeared in the textbooks for Contemporary Turkish and World History courses at the fourth grades of high schools.

In the book, it was written that Erener's victory in the Eurovision Song Contest was the first major success of Turkish pop music in the international arena.

[116] In April 2012, she released the classical Turkish album Ey Şûh-i Sertab, which was dedicated to her father Nizamettin Erener, after one year of preparations.

In 2015, together with her husband guitarist Emre Kula, bassist Eser Ünsalan, keyboardist Ozan Yılmaz and drummer Alpar Lu she found the group Oceans of Noise and they started to make English rock music.

In the same year, Erener released the singles "Bastırın Kızlar" and "Belki de Dönerim" in July and December respectively.

[127] Writing for Hürriyet, Hikmet Demirkol praised the songs, mentioning that "Sertab Erener is with us again with a dynamic album, full of detail and depth.

"[132] Tolga Akyıldız also wrote about her in an article for Hürriyet: "Sertab is one of the first brands of Turkish popular music with the power of both sound and song selection.

"[82] Together with Demir Demirkan, she released the jazz fusion album Painted On Water, which included türküs that were rewritten in English and re-performed.