Aziz Fuat Güner (born 1 April 1948), better known as Fuat Güner, is a Turkish

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, member of the renowned band

MFÖ Mazhar Fuat Özkan (MFÖ) was a Turkish pop and rock band consisted of members Mazhar Alanson, Fuat Güner, and Özkan Uğur. While many of their songs poke fun at common Turkish types ("Ali Desidero", "Piskopatım") or satirise prejudice and ...

Early life

He was born on 1 April 1948 in

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to a renowned photographer father, Sami Güner. He is of partial Albanian descent. During his school years at St. Joseph High School in Istanbul, he was a very active sportsman, playing

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and

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. He became a champion in the

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category of

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in Turkey. After high school, he was trained as a

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at the State Architectural Academy of Istanbul. Fuat Güner worked as an engineer at the State Highway Authority for 3 years and then for 2 years at

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, a private company for infrastructure.

Musical career

However, he was interested more in composing music. So, in 1979 he quit his job and devoted himself professionally to music, he says, when he was paid the equivalent of his annual wages for a single commercial jingle. He had been playing the guitar during primary school years, since his uncle presented him with an

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. In 1966, he met

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, and soon the two formed the band "Kaygısızlar" ("The Carefree") inspired by

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Özkan Uğur Raif Özkan Uğur (17 October 1953 – 8 July 2023) was a Turkish pop and rock musician, member of the renowned band MFÖ and actor. After starting his career in 1970, he became a founding member of Kurtalan Ekspres in 1972, which included Bar� ...

joined the group in 1972, and the band was renamed MFÖ, for the initials of its members' names. He was also one of the founding members of Kurtalan Ekspres,

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's band. MFÖ worked with Turkey's most popular singer

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, wrote songs and played the concert circuit. In 1984 Fuat invested all the money they earned into recording their first album. The group released the album ''Ele Güne Karşı Yapayalnız'', which hit number one and stayed there for 26 consecutive weeks. In 1989 Güner joined forces with his friend, Turgut Berkes, to build Turkey's first-ever A-class recording studio, "FT", which became a legend over the years. In 1998, Fuat Güner teamed up with Dağhan Baydur and

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to play ''Beatles Alaturca'', a revival of Beatles' music performed with an orchestra of Turkish instruments, at the Istanbul Lütfi Kırdar Convention and Exhibition Center, İstanbul. The group played the same work when they performed at the 1999 Beatles Festival held in

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. Fuat Güner is the composer of several film scores and has performed as an actor on stage and in one movie.

Discography

Solo albums

* '' Aziz Fuat Güner'' (1999) * '' Dinleyene Aşk Olsun'' (2010)

As guest artist

* '' Dünya Benim'' (2001) - Demir Demirkan ''(Aşk Var Ya)'' * '' Sihirbaz'' (2009) - Burcu Güneş (''Ateş Ve Suyun Aşkı'') * '' Göğe Selam'' (2011) - Kurtalan Ekspres (''Can Bedenden Çıkmayınca'')

Collaborative albums

MFÖ

Mazhar-Fuat

* '' Türküz Türkü Çağırırız'' (1973)

İpucu Beşlisi

* ''Heyecanlı / Hop Otur Hop Kalk'' (1976)

Filmography

Film score composer

* ''Arkadaşım Şeytan'', 1988 * ''Robert'in Filmi'' (''Robert's Movie''), 1990 * ''Aşk Ölümen Soğuktur'', 1994 * ''Ölümsüz Karanfiller'', 1995 * ''Koltuk Sevdası'', 2001 * ''Çekirdek Aile'', 2002

Actor

* ''Koltuk Sevdası'', 2001 * ''Tehlikeyle Flört'', 2015

References

* Biyografi.info
''Fuat Güner''
*

External links

Biographies of Mazhar-Fuat-Özkan

Sinematürk

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