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Tunçboyacıyan
Tunçboyacıyan is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Arto Tunçboyacıyan (Armenian: Արտո Թունչբոյաջյան) (born 1957), Armenian musician * Ohannes Tunçboyacı (Onno Tunç Ohannes Tunçboyacıyan, better known as Onno Tunç (20 December 1948 – 14 January 1996), was a leading Turkish musician of Armenian descent, working mainly as a composer, arranger and a music producer. Tunç also played bass guitar and occasi ...) (Armenian: Օհաննես Թունչբոյաջյան) (1948–1996), Turkish musician {{surname Armenian-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arto Tunçboyacıyan
Arto Sedraki Tunchboyachyan (; ; born August 4, 1957) is an Armenian American avant-garde folk and jazz multi-instrumentalist and singer of Armenian descent. He fronts his Armenian Navy Band group and is also a member of the instrumental quartet Night Ark. Tunchboyachyan had appeared on more than 200 records in Europe before arriving in the United States, where he went on to work with numerous jazz musicians, including Chet Baker, Marc Johnson, Al Di Meola, and Joe Zawinul, as well as performing semi-regularly with Paul Winter and the Earth Band. He has worked with Turkish singer Sezen Aksu and the Greek singer Eleftheria Arvanitaki. Tunchboyachyan's elder brother, Onno Tunchboyanchyan, was also a musician, and they have collaborated on several occasions. Early life Arto Tunçboyacıyan was born in Istanbul, Turkey. His father was a shoemaker of Armenian descent. At 11, he began his career playing and recording traditional Anatolian music with various musicians, including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Onno Tunç
Ohannes Tunçboyacıyan, better known as Onno Tunç (20 December 1948 – 14 January 1996), was a leading Turkish musician of Armenian descent, working mainly as a composer, arranger and a music producer. Tunç also played bass guitar and occasionally double bass, contributing to the albums of several musicians. He was one of the prominent names of Turkish pop music in the 1980s and 1990s with his arrangements. He was the elder brother of musician Arto Tunçboyacıyan. Early years Of Armenian descent, Onno Tunç was born in 1948 in Istanbul. His music experience started with the church choir of Harur Mangaz (Hundred students). In his first year of middle school, he had to drop out to go to work to support his family. Born in a financially limited family, he could not afford a musical instrument although they fascinated him, until Anush ("Sweet" in Armenian), the mother of his friend Arman bought her son a guitar, and one for Onno too. Onno, a fast-learning autodidact, started ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |