Fuat Saka

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Fuat Saka
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Fuat Saka at the Diyarbakır Culture-Art Festival
Background information
Born1952 (age 7273)
Trabzon, Turkey
Genres Folk
Occupation(s)Singer, songwriter, arranger, multi-instrumentalist
InstrumentGuitar
Years active1980–present

Fuat Saka (born 1952) is a Turkish singer, songwriter, arranger, and guitarist (although he may be more precisely called a multi-instrumentalist). [1]

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Biography

Saka received art training in Istanbul and later music training in France and (Germany). He had to leave Turkey in 1980, after the coup for political reasons. He lived in Europe up until 1998, travelling and collaborating with numerous musicians. Saka still divides most of his time between Istanbul, Hamburg, and Paris and tours several countries with his Fuat Saka International Group consisting of German, American, Georgian, and Azerbaijani musicians. He is of also Georgian descent by his mother. [2] He has performed with Greek musicians Nikos Papazoglou and Dionysis Savvopoulos since the mid-1980s. [3]

Discography

References

  1. "Fuat Saka". Archived from the original on 24 April 2012. Retrieved 6 August 2011.
  2. Arşiv, Hürriyet (4 August 2001). "Sert Laz rock'çu romantik popçu oldu". Hürriyet Daily News. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
  3. Sykka, Iota (16 October 2002). "Savvopoulos and Papazoglou party". Kathimerini . Retrieved 30 August 2010.
  4. Date on the audiocasette on Artvizyon