Kemal Doğulu

Kemal Doğulu — Biography

Kemal Doğulu started out doing celebrities' hair, make-up and photography and became known first as a singer and then as a style judge on television competitions. The older brother of actor Kadir Doğulu, he performed a new song on stage in May 2026, showing that he is still making music.

He began a hairdressing apprenticeship with a cousin in Mersin at the age of 12 and came to Istanbul at 17, where he worked in a hair salon. His hair and make-up designs appeared in fashion magazines, and once his photographs were published in Elle, photography became his second profession. In 2004 he did hair and make-up for the Michael Kors show at New York Fashion Week. He also served as image consultant to artists such as Hande Yener, Sıla, Kutsi, Gökhan Özen and Demet Akalın. Having met Hande Yener in 2006 and worked as photographer and image consultant on her Hande Maxi release, he went on to be art director and video director on her later albums and music videos.

He began singing when Yener's vocalist failed to show up at a concert and he took the stage in his place; with the support of Yener and Erol Temizel he released the electronic-style maxi single 1 Yerde in January 2008. Its video aired on MTV Türkiye and then on MTV's worldwide channel, and it stayed at number one on the World Chart Express for four weeks from April. Kemal Doğulu 2, Ters Köşe, 4. Kemal, Aşk Kabul Ederse and Duygusal followed. From September 2014 he appeared as a style judge on Bu Tarz Benim, then İşte Benim Stilim, and from 2019 on Doya Doya Moda.