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Güneş Özgeç began doing voiceover work and singing for television at the age of 7. At 11, she entered the State Conservatory at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, where she learned to play the violin, viola, and piano.

While studying, she started playing in various bands and orchestras, teaching, and eventually forming her own chamber music group. After graduation, she played in various classical music orchestras for a long time.

In addition to accompanying Belle and Sebastian during their concerts in Turkey, she has performed on stage and in the studio with many other artists, including Rashit, Mor ve Ötesi, Direc-t, Ömer Özgeç, Şenova Ülker, İdil Biret, Suna Kan, Ayşegül Sarıca, Shlomo Mintz, and İbrahim Yazıcı.

Starting in 2009, she worked as a music director on numerous projects for TRT Çocuk.

In 2011, she began composing music for animations, TV series, and films, and producing music.

Between 2011 and 2019, she served as the Music Director for Nickelodeon Turkey. She lent her voice to numerous series produced by Netflix (Black Mirror, Monster High, Lost And Found, Harvey Street Kids), DreamWorks (Dreamtopia), and CBeebies (NumTums, Charlie And Lola). She provided the voice for Nicola Peltz’s character Tessa Yeager in the Turkish release of the movie Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014). She composed the music for the animated feature Doru (2017) directed by Can Soysal, the Kadim Kültür documentary prepared by the Ministry of Culture, and the short film Puhu (2015) by Cem Bilge. Additionally, she composed music for several series on the TRT Çocuk channel, including “Yılkı Atı (Doru)”, “Ekoların Bahçesi”, “Öteki Tek”, “4×4’lük”, and Disney’s “Limon ile Zeytin”, as well as Akut’s “Bizim Çocuklar”. She has provided her voice for advertisements for several brands, including Babylon, Torku, and Vicks. She played in Istanbul State Theatre’s production of “As You Like It” and in “Yalnızlıklar”, which was staged at national and international festivals for three years with Mahir Günşiray.

She has performed her own show with electric violin in various venues.

In 2018, she released her songs “Kahve”, “Ikaria”, and “Sonbahar” as singles, which she wrote, composed, and arranged herself. Throughout 2019, in addition to her solo concerts, she hosted singer-songwriters of her generation on stage in a concert series called “Ayda Bir Güneş”. In 2020, she released “Güneş Yüzüm”. In 2021, influenced by the pandemic, she decided to handle the arrangement and all production of her songs, writing and composing them herself in her home studio, resulting in the singles “Bence Gerçek Hepsi” and “Düş”.

Continuing her voiceover work, Özgeç contributes to her own projects as well as those of other musicians. She arranged the strings for “Bugün Bana Tatil” in Kalben’s album “Eski Dünyanın Yangını”, which was released in January 2022. She also arranged and produced the tracks “Karasinek Senfonisi” and “Kedi”. As a nod to Turkish pop of the ’90s, she released the song “Bir Rüya”, which she recorded with Taner Yücel, along with a music video directed by Tuğçe Kep. She handled the lyrics, music, arrangement, recording, and entire production of her singles “hiç?”, “Gezdir Beni”, and “Öpüşünle Boynumdan” released in 2022, as well as “toksik” and “Olmuyor” released in 2023.

In 2023, she composed the music for two animated feature films released that year, “Doru Macera Adası” and “Bulmaca Kulesi 2: Eve Dönüş”, as well as the song “Hançer” for Çağıl Bocut’s short film “Her Gün Biraz Daha Kolay”. She created a remix for Özge Ürer’s track “Ayna” and worked on other production projects that are yet to be released; she also contributed to string arrangements and performances in the projects of musician friends such as Kalben, Mabel Matiz, Brek, and Selin Sümbültepe.

Continuing her conversational concert series “Ayda Bir Güneş” under the roof of Bant Mag. Havuz / Bina, as well as her voiceover, production work, and solo concerts, Güneş Özgeç released her first album “Kertenkele Kraliçe’nin Zamansız Masalları” on March 15.