- Fuat Güner
Aziz Fuat Güner (born April 1, 1948), better known as Fuat Güner, is a Turkish
pop musician , member of the renowned band MFÖ and anactor .Early life
He was born April 1, 1948 in
Istanbul ,Turkey to a renowned photographer father,Sami Güner . During his school years at St. Joseph High School in Istanbul, he was a very active sportsman, playing football,volleyball andsailing . He became a champion in the 400 m category ofcollege athletics in Turkey. After high school, he was trained as a civil engineer at the State Architectural Academy of Istanbul. Fuat Güner worked as an engineer at the State Highway Authority for 3 years and then for 2 years atSTFA Group , 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. In 1966, he met
Mazhar Alanson , and soon the two formed the band "Kaygısızlar" ("The Carefree") inspired bythe Beatles .Özkan Uğur 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 , 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 , 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 andErdal Kızılçay 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 inLiverpool ,England .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
* "Beatles Alaturca" (DEF Orchestra), 2001Filmography
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", 2002Actor
* "Koltuk Sevdası", 2001
References
* Biyografi.info - [http://www.biyografi.info/kisi/fuat-guner "Fuat Güner"] tr icon
*External links
* [http://www.mfo-fan.com/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=91#search=%22mazhar.alanson%201950%22 Biographies of Mazhar-Fuat-Özkan] tr icon
* [http://www.sinematurk.com/kisi.php?1420 Sinematürk] tr icon
* [http://www.sj.k12.tr/html/unluler/fuat-guner/fuat-guner-00.html# Brief biography] tr icon
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