Turkish artist, arranger, singer, composer, songwriter, TV show producer and presenter, columnist, State Artist and cultural ambassador. He is considered one of the pioneers of rock music in Turkey and one of the founders of the Anatolian Rock genre. His over 200 songs have earned him twelve gold and one platinum album and cassette awards. Some of these songs were later interpreted in Arabic, Bulgarian, Dutch, German, French, Hebrew, English, Japanese and Greek. He went to many countries of the world with the television program he prepared, for this reason he was called "Barış Çelebi". He was awarded the title of State Artist of the Republic of Turkey in 1991. He passed away on February 1, 1999, in Siyami Ersek Hospital, where he was hospitalized, as a result of a heart attack at home.
He was the peace ambassador of his time. But he was a man beyond his time. When you listen to his entire corpus, you see how he tells his troubles. He was truly a versatile artist, handed down from 7 to 77, from generation to generation.
He always told people about the good, the beautiful and the peace. It's good that...
