Melih Kibar was a Turkish

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 composer

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Biography

Born in Istanbul

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, he graduated from the German High School Istanbul and studied chemical engineering

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 at Bosphorus University. He received a Master's degree

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 from the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth

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At the age of eight, Kibar enrolled at the Conservatory of Istanbul Municipality. He started his musical career in the school years and won a first prize as composer at the Milliyet

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 High School Music Contest in 1970. Until 1975 he worked with 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...

. Since 1975, he composed 273 tune

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s, 9 musicals and 32 film musicals in cooperation with various artists, in particular with lyricist Çiğdem Talu

Çigdem Talu

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. In 1976, he received the Golden Orange

Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival

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 prize for the soundtrack of the film "Hababam Sınıfı

Hababam Sinifi

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". Melih Kibar participated in various international festivals and was winner of many prizes in Turkey

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 and abroad. At the Eurovision Song Contest 1986

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 held in Bergen, Norway

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, his song "Halley" and at the Eurovision Song Contest 1995

Eurovision Song Contest 1995

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 held in Dublin, Ireland

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, his another song "Sev!" represented Turkey.

Melih Kibar died of skin cancer

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 on April 7, 2005 in Istanbul. He is survived by his wife Ethel and his daughter Merve.

Discography

• Yadigar, 2001
• Saat Sabahın Dokuzu, 2003
• Hababam Sınıfı
  Hababam Sinifi
  Hababam Sınıfı is a 1975 Turkish comedy film, directed by Ertem Eğilmez based on a novel by Rıfat Ilgaz, starring Kemal Sunal as a highschool student in a private school who is challenged by the arrival of a new headmaster...
  
  -Merhaba, 2004