Born in 1994 in Izmir, Turkey, Merve Akyıldız graduated from the Piano Department of Antalya State Conservatory. Besides her classical music education, she works in different styles: folk, jazz, world music, oriental jazz, and ambient music. The artist has won many awards from piano and vocal competitions in Turkey and Europe and has been giving solo concerts with her Merve Akyıldız Project since 2018. She performs as a soloist with Berlin's Babylon ORCHESTRA and is also one of the vocals of composer and conductor Tolga Taviş's YuMaK-Team, which performs with various symphony orchestras.