Turkish Rock

Kayıp Çocuk Masalları (Missing Children's Tales) is a 2010 Turkish studio album by Cem Adrian.

The album is Adrian's 5th alternative rock music studio album after Emir which was released 2.5 years prior.

Şebnem Ferah (born 12 April 1972) is a Turkish singer, songwriter, composer, and guitarist. She was the lead vocalist of the all-female hard rock band Volvox until 1994, after which she went on to pursue an illustrious solo career. Her music style varies from pop rock to hard rock though her later albums have progressively incorporated more of the hard rock sound.

Şebnem Ferah was born on 12 April 1972 in Yalova to ethnic Turkish immigrant parents from Skopje (present-day North Macedonia). She first took solfeggio and instrument lessons from her father who was also a teacher. She grew up listening to her father's Rumelian folk songs played with bağlama, mandolin and piano.

She got her first guitar when she was in the first year in boarding at Namık Sözeri Highschool of Bursa. She got acoustic lessons. During her second year, she hired a studio with her friends and formed the group Pegasus. The group had their first stage appearance during a rock festival in Bursa, in 1987. After a while, Pegasus disbanded. In 1988, Şebnem formed Volvox with four friends of hers that they named after the microorganism known as volvox, which they encountered in a biology lesson.

Özlem Tekin (born November 18, 1971) is a Turkish singer and occasional actress, primarily known for her music. Though she started out in the hard rock genre, her music has progressed to incorporate different styles such as house, punk, pop and Turkish folk music.

Özlem Tekin was born in California, United States into a Turkish-American family. Her father Talat Tekin was a prominent Turkologist and an Altaicist at UC Berkeley. The Tekins moved to Turkey when she was four years old. Özlem grew up in Ankara, where she studied classical western music at the Hacettepe University Music Conservatory in Ankara, specializing in the clarinet.

She started out as the vocalist in The Bad. The Bad was an underground rock band like most other rock bands and they would perform gigs at clubs, often playing covers of other popular bands. In 1993, she met Şebnem Ferah, who has now also become another recognized rock musician in Turkey, and became the keyboard player of the successful all-female rock band Volvox. Özlem occasionally performed as the lead singer as well.

Mor ve ötesi (literally Purple and Beyond; a play on the word morötesi, meaning ultraviolet) is a Turkish alternative rock band from Istanbul. Its four current members are Harun Tekin (vocals and rhythm guitar), Kerem Kabadayı (drums), Burak Güven (bass) and Kerem Özyeğen (lead guitar). Former members include Alper Tekin (no relation to Harun) and Derin Esmer. The band achieved mainstream success with the release of the album Dünya Yalan Söylüyor. In 2008, the band represented Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest in Belgrade with the song "Deli" (Lunatic).

Mor ve ötesi had their breakthrough with their fourth album “Dünya Yalan Söylüyor” in 2004. The album sold over 300,000 copies and changed the way rock was perceived by the Turkish music industry. Their hundreds of live performances have included several tours in Europe and the US. The band celebrated their 20th anniversary in 2016 with two special CD box-sets containing all of their published work.

Akın Eldes was born on 11 November 1962 and is a Turkish guitarist.

He was born in Frankfurt, Germany, and played mandolin and flute as a child. Eldes started playing the guitar in high school. He played with the bands E-5, Painted Bird, Asım Can Gündüz, singer-songwriter Bülent Ortaçgil, bassist Gürol Ağırbaş, composer Melih Kibar and Çapkınlar among others prior to joining Bulutsuzluk Özlemi. He is currently playing with the Turkish rock band Pinhani. Akın Eldes's choice of electric guitars facilitates his characteristic sound. Currently, Eldes uses a variety of special hand-made guitars by Murat Sezen. He generally plays the Yamaha Pacifica PAC1511MS or Steinberger Headless guitar in Pinhani Concerts. His work with Bulutsuzluk Özlemi has been between 1986–2000.

Hayko Cepkin is a Turkish musician of Armenian descent.

Kurban were a Turkish heavy metal band formed in 1995. The band's members were Kerem Tüzün, Burak Gürpınar, Deniz Yılmaz and Özgür Kankaynar.

The band opened for Metallica in 1999 at the Ali Sami Yen Stadium, and opened for Megadeth in ROCKISTANBUL 2005.

The band broke up briefly in 2005, but reunited soon after - in late December 2006.

In 2010, Kurban released an album titled "Sahip".

Kurban was founded in the year 1995, then called Outside. Under this name, the band played covers of foreign rock songs. In 1997 they changed their name to Kurban. In the same year the band took part in the Roxy Music Awards competition and became third. In January 1999, the band released their first album Kurban. After opening for Metallica in 1999, guitarist Umut Gökçen moved to the USA to live with his fiancee, and the band started looking for a new guitar player. In 2000, they made a soundtrack for a movie named Beans (film), which starred actor Haluk Bilginer. The band included Özgür Kankaynar soon after. In 2004, Kurban released the album Sert. In 2005, Kurban continued with a new album, İnsanlar. Kurban opened for Megadeth at Rockİstanbul 2005.

Seksendört (also known as Grup 84) is a Turkish pop rock band from Ankara.

Seksendört consists of Tuna Velibaşoğlu, Arif Erdem Ocak, Serter Karadeniz, and Okan Özen. The band was formed in 1999 and started getting noticed under the name 'Seksendört' in 2005. The band became very popular in Turkey with their album K.G.B.

Catfish is a 2010 film directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman. It involves a young man, Nev, being filmed by his brother and friend, co-directors Ariel and Henry, as he builds a romantic relationship with a young woman on the social networking website Facebook. The film was a critical and commercial success. It led to an MTV reality TV series, Catfish: The TV Show. The film is credited with coining the term catfishing: a type of deceptive activity involving a person creating a fake social networking presence for nefarious purposes.

Çilekeş ([t͡ʃilekeʃ] chi-leh-KESH, lit. 'Sufferer') is a Turkish rock band active since 2002.

Çilekeş was founded in 2002 in Ankara. The band received greater fame after winning the music contest "Genç Yetenekler Aramızda" (Young Talents Among Us), sponsored by the Fanta drinks company, in 2003, juried by such famous Turkish artists like Teoman and Levent Yüksel. After the contest, still as an amateur band, they were invited to a tour, comprising 17 cities, during which they performed to an approximate total of 350,000 audience.

The band members are Görkem Karabudak (vocals, rhythm guitar), Ali Güçlü Şimşek (lead guitar), Gökhan Şahinkaya (bass guitar), Cumhur Avcil (drums).

Sefa Deniz Alemdar, edebiyat ve sanatla iç içe olan bir ailenin ferdidir. Çeşitli sanat dalları ile uğraşma imkânı bulan Alemdar; ritim ile bütünleştiğini fark ettiğinde yalnızca 10 yaşındaydı ve bu bütünlük onun dünyası haline geldi. Çocukken sıklıkla izlediği rock konserlerinden esinlenerek, “Cümbüş” marka ilk davulunu yanan bagetleriyle kaza sonucu ateşe verdi.

Progresif rock ve north jazz, müzikal tavrını etkileyen akımlar oldu. 90’ların sonlarında Kerim Çaplı, 2005’te kurucu üyelerinden olduğu Yüksek Sadakat’le çalışmaya başladı.

"Genç yaşına rağmen emektar bir müzisyen Sefa Deniz Alemdar; memleketimizin sayısız topluluk ve sanatçısına eşlik etmiş yetenekli bir davulcu olarak…Onu sahnede defalarca izledim; nasıl yer aldığı ekibin emniyet kilidi olduğuna, arkadaşları için nasıl bir güvenlik oluşturduğuna şahit oldum. Sadece sahnedekiler değil, izleyiciler arasında da Deniz’in sahnedeki varlığı, bizi birazdan sarmalayacak olan müziğin kalite garantisiydi. Onu bu ülkedeki rock müzisyeni ortalaması üzerinden tarif etmek kolay değil. 

Barış Akarsu (June 29, 1979 – July 4, 2007) was a Turkish Anatolian rock singer and actor who rose to fame after winning the television series Akademi Türkiye (Academy Turkey) in July 2004. He released two studio albums in three years and was also acting in television series Yalancı Yarim (My Lying Lover) which aired on Star TV.

On June 29, 2007, he was seriously injured in a car accident on his way back from a charity concert for children. After spending five days in an intensive care unit, he died of complications from the accident on July 4, 2007, at the age of 28.

Akarsu was born and raised in Bartın, in northern Turkey. He was a huge fan of rock music, listening to music from Ruhi Su, Cem Karaca and Barış Manço as well as Western acts like Led Zeppelin or U2.

Aslı Gökyokuş (born 26 October 1977) is a Turkish singer.

Aslı Gökyokuş, who is also known as Aslı was born on 26 October 1977 in Istanbul. Her work in music began with the band that she helped form during her years at high school, which was called "Phoenix". The group started off like any other garageband, which had their members doing their own thing and performing gigs at their high school whenever possible. Following their high school years, a few of the founding members of the band left and only to be replaced by new interested members. Of course, Aslı stayed as she continued performing and working with her band mates. With the new group members being added, the band decided to change their names to that of, "Mary Jane". Their music basically consisted of rearranging cover hits and performing at local halls, bars and wherever they had been invited to perform.

Aydilge Sarp (born June 25, 1979) is a Turkish writer, poet and singer-songwriter.

Aydilge Sarp was born in 1979 in Kütahya, Turkey. Her Circassian mother, Faika Özer writes poetry and novels, with a release of more than ten books. Aydilge passed the entrance exam to the TRT Radio Children's Choir (TRT Radyosu Çocuk Korusu) when she was eight years old. At the age of 14 she was given her first electric guitar and started composing her own songs. Later she performed in bars while she attended secondary school at Türk Eğitim Derneği Ankara Koleji. Having completed her studies at the American Culture and Literature in Başkent University in Ankara with flying colours, she moved to Istanbul. Aydilge studied Radio, Television and Cinema at Istanbul University.

Kargo is a rock band from Istanbul, Turkey. Its current line-up includes Selim Öztürk on electric guitar, Burak Karataş on drums and Ozan Anlaş on vocals.

The band was formed in the early years of the 1990s by Selim Öztürk (guitar) and Mehmet Şenol Şişli (bass guitar). Although the Turkish music industry was dominated by pop music, Kargo was able to break through with their first album Sil Baştan (Start Over). The first line-up soon broke up and the two founders had to find new members.

The first member to join Kargo was Serkan Çeliköz, who is the brother of one of Mehmet's university schoolmates. Being a music student and able to play wide range of instruments as keyboard, guitar, violin, bassoon and contrabass made Serkan a perfect choice. Later Burak Karataş joined Kargo as the drummer and the only thing left was the long search of the lead singer. Koray Candemir, who impressed the other members by his performance in a local bar, was offered the position. With his acceptance Kargo began to record their album Yarına Ne Kaldı (What is left for tomorrow?) which became a smash hit in 1996. Yüzleşme, the first single from the album Yarına Ne Kaldı, rise to the top of the charts even though it was a pure rock song. Kargo proved that a rock group can be successful in the Turkish music industry.

Ogün Sanlısoy is a Turkish rock musician and pioneer among Turkish heavy metal vocalists.

Sanlısoy was born in Gölcük, Kocaeli, Turkey. He graduated from Mimar Sinan University as an industrial product designer. His debut concert was an acoustic concert in which he performed with acoustic instruments with his friend Kubilay Özvardar.

He joined Mezarkabul (in Turkey widely known as Pentagram) in 1992 and contributed to the album Trail Blazer. After serving the band for three years, he was declared the best rock vocalist by two Turkish Rock magazines.

In 1995, he left to band to pursue his solo career but joined the band Klips, which had a softer tune than Mezarkabul. He also contributed to Özlem Tekin's debut album, Kime Ne.

Arşak Yaşar Kurt (Armenian: Արշակ Յաշար Կուրթ, born 16 August 1968) is a Turkish-Armenian rock artist.

He studied in 1990 at the Faculty of Open Education Anadolu University but did not graduate.

He founded the alternative musical group Beyaz Yunus (literally White Dolphin). In 1993, he had his first studio recording in Germany and in 1994, released the album Sokak Şarkıları (literally Street Songs) recorded in Cologne, Germany. The album on the Ada Müzik music label became very popular in Turkey. A series of concerts followed throughout Turkey. Moving to Berlin, a daughter was born named Rosa. He returned in 1996 to Turkey to continue with his musical career.

Göndermeler (literally Referrals) was released in 1997 album on Aks Müzik and Boğaziçi Müzik labels. After one-and-a-half years, he released Reflex produced by Ağdaş Müzik containing 9 songs stretching in the period 1990–2000 as well as 3 cover versions.

Mehmet Barış Manço (born Tosun Yusuf Mehmet Barış Manço; 2 January 1943 – 1 February 1999), better known by his stage name Barış Manço, was a Turkish rock musician, singer, composer, actor, television producer and show host. Beginning his musical career while attending Galatasaray High School, he was a pioneer of rock music in Turkey and one of the founders of the Anatolian rock genre. Manço composed around 200 songs and is among the best-selling Turkish artists to date and the winner of the most awards. Many of his songs were translated into other languages including English, French, Japanese, Greek, Italian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Persian, Hebrew, Urdu, Arabic, and German. Through his TV programme, 7'den 77'ye (From 7 to 77), Manço travelled the world and visited many countries. He remains one of Turkey's most popular public figures long after his death.