) is a composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

, pop music

Pop music

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 singer and song writer often known as Kutsi. His first two names have been given to him from the poet

Poet

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 Ahmet Kutsi Tecer

Ahmet Kutsi Tecer

Ahmet Kutsi Tecer was a Turkish poet and politician.-Biography:Born in Jerusalem, Tecer studied philosophy and started his career as a philosophy teacher. Then, he worked in the Education Ministry and was a member of parliament from 1942 to 1946...

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Biography

Born in Malatya

Malatya

Malatya ) is a city in southeastern Turkey and the capital of its eponymous province.-Overview:The city site has been occupied for thousands of years. The Assyrians called the city Meliddu. Following Roman expansion into the east, the city was renamed in Latin as Melitene...

 but he was raised in Ankara

Ankara

Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after Istanbul. The city has a mean elevation of , and as of 2010 the metropolitan area in the entire Ankara Province had a population of 4.4 million....

, where he started to gain fame too, but the proper fame story begins with him playing Accordion

Accordion

The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....

 at the Bora Bar in Didim

Didim

Didim, home of the antique city of Didyma with its ruined Temple of Apollo, is a small town, popular seaside holiday resort and district of Aydın Province on the Aegean coast of western Turkey, from the city of Aydın.-Geography:...

. Kutsi's introduction to music was when he won some money from scrath to win and he bought his first guitar.

Career

In 1992, he came to Istanbul

Istanbul

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...

 with a small album that had all songs written and composed by himself but failed to attract the attention of producers. Determined, Kutsi didn't give up and continued to work with music and he managed to get the attention of the producer Erol Köse and, in a record amount of time 26 days, he managed to create his first album: Aşk Payını Aldı (""Love had its share"").

He actually managed to show himself in 2005 with his album Sana Ne (""What's it to you?""). In the period of time, he made some songs for Nalan

Nalan

Nalan may refer to:*Nalan Xingde, a poet*Nalan Ramazanoğlu, a Turkish basketball player*Nalan , a Turkish singer*Nalan Mingzhu, an official of the Qing Dynasty*Nalan Minghui, a character in Qijian Xia Tianshan...

, Berksan and others. He later made a duet with Petek Dinçöz. During this time, He managed to create and host a show in, one of Turkey

Turkey

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's best music channels, Kral TV

Kral TV

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 (""King TV"") and named it İlan-ı Aşk (""An old Ottoman Turkish term meaning to display love"") and manage to keep in between hosting and music at, literally, the same time.

In 2006, he gained some experiences in acting as well as he took part in the Turkish version of Grey's Anatomy

Grey's Anatomy

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, named Doktorlar (""Doctors""). He made his third album, Aynı Şehirde Nefes Almak Bile Bana Yetiyor (""It's enough for me to even breath in the same city as you"") and continue to climb the ladder in his music career. The reason why this album stood out more than the others is because all the instruments and all the songs were recorded live with no alternation with computers or any other electronical instruments. This album was under the direction of , Osman İşmen and also with the help of İstanbul Devlet Senfoni Orkestrası (""Istanbul Public Sympothy Orchestra"").

At the summer of 2008, the album he released Aynadaki Yüzünün Karşılığı Benim (""I am the reflection of you in the mirror"") managed to become the first place in music lists. The album consist of several hit songs which contributed to the career of Kutsi in a good manner.

He is currently one of the three surviving members left in the program that is shown on Show TV

Show TV

SHOW TV is a nation-wide television channel in Turkey owned by Çukurova Holding. The channel was established by the Turkish businessmen Erol Aksoy and Haldun Simavi on March 1, 1992. During the last years, Show TV extended its range of viewers by adding more channels like Show Plus, Show Max and...

, Korolar Carpışıyor (""Chorus' Collide"") other than Öykü and Berk and Rojin.

Albums

• Aşk Payını Aldı (""Love had its share"")(2000)
• Sana Ne (""What's it to you"") (2005)
• Kördüğüm (""Blindchain"")(2006)
• Aynı Şehirde Nefes Almak Bile Bana Yetiyor(""It's enough for me to even breath in the same city as you"") (2007)
• Aynadaki Yüzünün Karşılığı Benim (""I am the reflection, in the mirror, of you"") (2008)

Music Videos

• Soran Yok (""Nobody asked"")
• Sana Ne
• Geçer (""Pass"")
• Aşkın Gururu (""Honour of Love"")
• Doğum Günü (""Birthday"")
• Kördüğüm
• Hediyem Olsun (""Let it be my present"")
• Olay Olacak Aşkımız (""Our love is going to be an incident"")
• Aynı Şehirde Nefes Almak Bile Bana Yetiyor
• İlan-ı Aşk
• Aynadaki Yüzünün Karşılığı Benim

Success in the lists

	| Album		| Single		| Peak
Turkey
Aynadaki Yüzünün Karşılığı Benim	Aynadaki Yüzünün Karşılığı Benim	18
	Aşık Olmaya Yemin Ediyorum (""I am swearing to be in love"")	12

Album Details

• Aşk Payını Aldı (2000)

1. Sevenim Oldu (""There's a lover to me"")
2. Haram Olsun (""I hope it'll not be good"")
3. Seninle (""With you"")
4. Aşk Payını Aldı
5. Kaderim (""My Fate"")
6. Soran Yok
7. Taka Taka
8. Büyüme Bebek (""Don't grow, baby"")
9. Koş Getir (""Run! Get it"")
10. Nazar (""Bad Luck"")
11. Kar Üstünde (""On top of the snow"")
12. Mümkün Mü (""Is it possible?"")

• Sana Ne (2005)

1. Sana Ne
2. Maktul (""Victim"")
3. Neden Neden (""Why, Why?"")
4. Aşkın Gururu
5. Ankara
6. Geçer
7. Bomboşum Buralarda (""I'm empty around here"")
8. Canın Sağolsun (""Forget it"")
9. Doğum Günü
10. Derdini Söyle Bana (""Tell me your problem"")
11. Ağlama Kalbim (""Don't cry my heart"")
12. O Sen Olamazsın (""You can't be her"")
13. Hançer (""Sword"")
14. Maktul (Akustik Sürüm)
15. Canın Sağolsun (Akustik Sürüm)
16. Geçer (Akustik Sürüm)

• Kördüğüm (Petek Dinçöz ile) 2006

1. Doğum Günü (R&B Style)
2. Git İşine (""Go to your duty"")
3. Kördüğüm (Dance Style)
4. Kördüğüm (Series style)
5. Kördüğüm (Spanish Style)
6. Kördüğüm (Old-Style)

• Aynı Şehirde Nefes Almak Bile Bana Yetiyor

1. Hediyem Olsun
2. Olay Olacak Aşkımız
3. Aynı Şehirde Nefes Almak Bile Bana Yetiyor
4. Bugün (""Today"")
5. Dua Et (""Pray"")
6. Şerefine Sevenlerin (""To people who love"")
7. İlan-ı Aşk
8. Yine Saçlarda Aklar (""Whitening in the hairs again"")
9. Posta Kutusuna Bakıver (""Check in the post"")
10. Sevdiğim İstanbul`a Gelin Oluyor (""My lover is becoming a bride for Istanbul"")
11. Dertlerimi Zincir Yaptım (""I made a chain of my problems"")
12. Son Perde (""Last Show"")
13. Duvardaki Resim (""The picture on the wall")
14. Büyüme Bebek
15. Günaha Girme (""Don't enter sin"")
16. Nokta Koyulacak (""There is going to have a full stop"")

Films

• Doktorlar (Show TV), 2006-2009 (Levent Atahanlı) Beyin Cerrah

External links

• Kutsi Fan Club