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Erkin Koray

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Turkish singer-songwriter (1941–2023)

Person · Open Library

Works
1

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
TR
Active from
1941-06-24
Active to
2023-08-07

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
147,184
Total plays
3,128,919

Tags

turkishPsychedelic Rockanatolian rockpsychedelicturkish rock

Erkin Koray has been in the Turkish rock music scene since the early 1960s. By the late 1960s, he was already a major figure in Turkish psychedelic music (also called as Anatolian Rock), beginning with his first psychedelic single "Anma Arkadaş" in 1967. In the early 1970s, he formed the group Ter with the former members of Grup Bunalım (also known as Bunalımlar). Although they only recorded one single before breaking up, "Hor Görme Garibi" (a cover of the major arabesque hit by Orhan Gencebay)

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
male
Citizenship
Turkey
Place of birth
Istanbul
Place of death
Toronto
Occupation
guitarist
Languages spoken
German
Native language
Turkish
Instrument
bağlama
Political ideology
anti-schooling activism
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date of birth
1941-06-24
start of work period
1966-00-00
social media followers
117000
name in native language
Erkin Koray
date of death
2023-08-07
birth name
Mustafa Erkin Koray
place of burial
Toronto
date of burial or cremation
2023-08-11
manner of death
natural causes
Commons category
Erkin Koray
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