Orhan GENCEBAY

Category: Red Apple Art Award

Orhan GENCEBAY|Composer - Vocal Artist

He was born in Samsun in 1944. He started his music career by taking violin and mandolin lessons from Emin Tarakcı when he was 6 years-old. He grasped the Turkish music and bağlama at the age of 7. With the age of 10, he started to compose. His father’s encouragements introduced Gencebay with the Turkish Art Music and tambur, a stringed instrument similar to the mandolin. In 1967, he worked a period of time in the İstanbul Radio House. He has approximately 1000 compositions within which 400 songs have been sung by him. His compositions are listened and adopted in Mediterranean Countries, Middle East, Centre Asia and Europe where the Turks live.