Yıldız Tilbe (born 16 July 1966) is a Turkish singer of Kurdish descent and one of the best-selling musical artists in Turkey,[1] known especially for her eastern-infused ballads.

Yıldız Tilbe was born in the Gültepe district of Konak, İzmir, and is of Kurdish origin.

She attended the Mustafa Rahmi Balaban School, but left after the second grade,[6] and started singing from an early age.

While performing at the nightclub in 1991, she met Sezen Aksu, who asked Tilbe to become her backing vocalist.

She subsequently got an offer from Cem Özer to perform as a soloist in the program Laf Lafı Açıyor.

In 2004, Tilbe was diagnosed with uterine cancer[18] and underwent surgery and treatment at Hacettepe University Medical School.

[20] After the 2006 Israeli airstrike on Lebanon, during a television appearance Tilbe said "May God bring down one disaster after another upon Israel," to which the studio audience answered "Amen.

"[21] In response to Israeli airstrikes on Gaza in early July 2014, Tilbe is reported to have said on social media site Twitter: "God bless Hitler, it was even too few what he did to the Jews, he was right" and "The Jews will be destroyed by Muslims, in the name of Allah, not much time left for it to be done".

[22][23] Her tweets received support from Melih Gökçek, the mayor of Ankara, who is a member of the ruling Justice and Development Party and himself a controversial figure.

Yıldız Tilbe, who was a guest on the İbo Show music program broadcast on the Turkish channel ATV in 2009, got angry and reacted when her song was interrupted by Turkish singer and the program's presenter İbrahim Tatlıses.

[26] * The list above includes songs given to other artists whose lyrics or music belong to Yıldız Tilbe.