Fikret Kızılok was 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...

 musician. He was a pioneer of Turkish rock music and an early experimentalist. After publishing his farewell album (A revolutionist's diary), he died in 2001 following a long illness.

Kızılok was introduced to music during his secondary school years at the Galatasaray High School, the same school his fellow music legends Barış Manço

Baris Manço

Barış Manço was a Turkish rock singer, composer, and television producer. He composed about 200 songs, some of which were translated into a variety of languages including English, Japanese, Greek, Italian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Persian, Urdu and Arabic...

 and Timur Selçuk

Timur Selçuk

Timur Selçuk is a renowned Turkish singer, pianist, conductor and composer.- Biography :He is a son of the legendary Turkish neo-classical music composer, Münir Nurettin Selçuk, and the elder brother of the jazz drummer and composer Selim Selçuk. He started playing piano at the age of five and...

 also went, and his first instrument was an accordion

Accordion

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. Upon graduation, he went on to studying dentistry. “Yumma Gözün Kör Gibi ! Yağmur Olsam” was his first album release.

Finally, his ‘’farewell album’’ 'Mustafa Kemal-Devrimcinin Güncesi' was released.
He died in 2001 because of a terminal illness he long suffered.

Discography

With Cahit Oben 4

• 1965: I Wanna Be Your Man / 36 24 36
• 1965: Silifke'nin Yoğurdu / Hereke
• 1965: Makaram Sarı Bağlar / Halime

Fikret Kızılok ve Üç Veliaht (Fikret Kızılok and three crown princes)

• 1965: Belle Marie / Kız Ayşe

Solo 45s

• 1966: Ay Osman - Sevgilim / Colours - Baby
• 1969: Uzun İnce Bir Yoldayım / Benim Aşkım Beni Geçti
• 1970: Yağmur Olsam / Yumma Gözün Kör Gibi
• 1970: Söyle Sazım / Güzel Ne Güzel Olmuşsun
• 1971: Vurulmuşum / Emmo
• 1971: Gün Ola Devran Döne / Anadolu'yum
• 1972: Leylim Leylim (Kara Tren) / Gözlerinden Bellidir
• 1973: Köroğlu Dağları / Tutamadım Ellerini
• 1973: Bacın Önde Ben Arkada / Koyverdin Gittin Beni
• 1975: Anadolu'yum '75 / Darağacı
• 1976: Biz Yanarız / Sen Bir Ceylan Olsan

Fikret Kızılok ve Tehlikeli Madde

• 1974: Aşkın Olmadığı Yerde / İnsan mıyım Mahluk muyum Ot muyum
• 1974: Haberin Var mı / Kör Pencere - Ay Battı

Solo albums

• 1977: Not Defterimden
• 1983: Zaman Zaman
• 1990: Yana Yana
• 1992: Olmuyo Olmuyo
• 1995: Demirbaş
• 1995: Yadigar
• 1998: Mustafa Kemal - Devrimcinin Güncesi
• 1999: Gün ola devran döne

With Bülent Ortaçgil

Bülent Ortaçgil

Bülent Ortaçgil is a Turkish composer and singer.-Biography:He was born in Ankara, Turkey in 1950. He moved to Istanbul after starting elementary school which he finished at Sultanahmet Elementary School in Istanbul. He completed his middle school and high school education at Kadıköy Anadolu Lisesi...

• 1985: Biz Şarkılarımızı... (This album wasn't published, but distributed by hand)
• 1986: Pencere Önü Çiçeği
• 2007 Büyükler İçin Çocuk Şarkıları

Compilations

• 1992 68'ler
• 1993 Seçme Eserler - 68'ler 2

Albums with book

• 1995: Demirbaş
• 1996: Vurulduk Ey Halkım...
• 1999: Bir Devrimcinin Güncesi

Among his well-known songs are Bu Kalp Seni Unutur mu? (Would this heart forget you?), Yeter ki (Just so), Zaman Zaman (Time to time), Gönül (Heart), Sevda Çiçeği (Passion flower), Gecenin Üçünde (3 am at night), Gidiyorsun (You are going).