Yaşar was born in Ankara as the child of a family of Kurdish origin from Ağrı. She is a graduate of ITU Turkish Music State Conservatory. Yaşar was 17 when she released her debut album Bu Sahilde (On this Beach) in 1995. That year, she won the Female Singer of the Year Award of Turkish Magazine Journalists Association. Since then she released 10 successful albums and a string of singles that became hits in Turkey.