Fuat Güner
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Aziz Fuat Güner better known as Fuat Güner, is a Turkish
Turkish people
Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...
pop musician, member of the renowned band MFÖ
Mazhar-Fuat-Özkan
Mazhar-Fuat-Özkan is a Turkish band. The names of the band's singers are Mazhar Alanson, Fuat Güner and Özkan Uğur....
and an actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
.
Early life
He was born on 1 April 1948 in IstanbulIstanbul
Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...
, Turkey
Turkey
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to a renowned photographer father, Sami Güner. During his school years at St. Joseph High School
St. Joseph High School (Istanbul)
St. Joseph High School is a private high school located in Istanbul, Turkey. It is a French school founded in 1870. Classes are taught in Turkish, French, and/or English.-External links:* / *...
in Istanbul, he was a very active sportsman, playing football, volleyball
Volleyball
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and sailing
Sailing
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. He became a champion in the 400 m
400 metres
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category of college athletics
College athletics
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in Turkey. After high school, he was trained as a civil engineer
Civil engineering
Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works like roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings...
at the State Architectural Academy of Istanbul
Yildiz Technical University
Yildiz Technical University is a technical university dedicated to engineering sciences and is one of the most prominent educational institutions in Istanbul, Turkey. The central campus lies within the Beşiktaş district.-History:Yildiz Technical University has a distinguished history which began...
. Fuat Güner worked as an engineer at the State Highway Authority for 3 years and then for 2 years at STFA Group
STFA Group
STFA Group is a Turkish construction conglomerate based in Istanbul. The company was founded by Sezai Türkeş and Feyzi Akkaya in 1938. STFA currently has 24 companies providing specialized engineering and construction services to clients from various countries on projects ranging from large to small...
, a private company for infrastructure.
Musical career
However, he was interested more in composing music. So, in 1979 he quit his job and devoted himself professionally to music, he says, when he was paid the equivalent of his annual wages for a single commercial jingle.He had been playing the guitar during primary school years, since his uncle presented him with an acoustic guitar
Classical guitar
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. In 1966, he met Mazhar Alanson
Mazhar Alanson
Mahmut Mazhar Alanson is a Turkish musician, guitarist, member of the popular Turkish pop music band MFÖ and an actor.- Early life :...
, and soon the two formed the band "Kaygısızlar" ("The Carefree") inspired by the Beatles
The Beatles
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. Özkan Uğur
Özkan Ugur
Raif Özkan Uğur is a Turkish pop musician, member of the renowned band MFÖ and an actor.He started his musician career in the Şerif Yüzbaşıoğlu Orchestra as a bass guitarist. In 1971, Özkan joined Mazhar Alanson and Fuat Güner in the duo "Kaygısızlar" The band was dissolved in 1972...
joined the group in 1972, and the band was renamed MFÖ, for the initials of its members' names.
MFÖ worked with Turkey's most popular singer Ajda Pekkan
Ajda Pekkan
Ayşe Ajda Pekkan is a Turkish pop singer and actress. Through a career spanning five decades thus far, Pekkan has released more than 20 albums and, with Sezen Aksu, is the most commercially successful female Turkish music artist with the sales of over 30 million copies worldwide. She is nicknamed...
, wrote songs and played the concert circuit. In 1984 Fuat invested all the money they earned into recording their first album. The group released the album Ele Güne Karşı Yapayalnız, which hit number one and stayed there for 26 consecutive weeks.
In 1989 Güner joined forces with his friend, Turgut Berkes
Turgut Berkes
Turgut Berkes is a Turkish rock musician, painter, and writer. He was born in 1953 in İzmir, Turkey.He was educated at the TED Ankara College and then at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art...
, to build Turkey's first-ever A-class recording studio, "FT", which became a legend over the years.
In 1998, Fuat Güner teamed up with Dağhan Baydur and Erdal Kızılçay
Erdal Kizilcay
Erdal Kizilcay is a multi-instrumental musician of Turkish birth who has worked with, among others, David Bowie. He lives in Aegerten, Switzerland.-With David Bowie:*Never Let Me Down...
to play Beatles Alaturca, a revival of Beatles' music performed with an orchestra of Turkish instruments, at the Lütfi Kırdar Congress Centre, İstanbul. The group played the same work when they performed at the 1999 Beatles Festival held in Liverpool
Liverpool
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, England
England
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.
Fuat Güner is the composer of several film scores and has performed as an actor on stage and in one movie.
Discography
- Aziz Fuat Güner (solo album), 1999 (Repressed in 2010)
- Beatles Alaturca (DEF Orchestra), 2001
Film score composer
- Arkadaşım Şeytan, 1988
- Robert'in Filmi (Robert's Movie), 1990
- Aşk Ölümen Soğuktur, 1994
- Ölümsüz Karanfiller, 1995
- Koltuk Sevdası, 2001
- Çekirdek Aile, 2002