Yıldız Tilbe is a veteran performer of arabesque ballads, with a vulnerable timbre that’s the perfect vehicle to express romanticism and the pain that comes with it. Beginning with her 1994 debut album Delikanlım, the singer-songwriter has filled her discography with the kind of personal sadness that can nevertheless resonate with any heart or soul. And she does it while largely eschewing pop’s global vernacular for music steeped in the traits of fantezi—a style inspired by Turkish folk traditions but made for the now.