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Ahmet Kaya (1957-2000) was a Turkish poet, singer, musician, and songwriter. Kaya was born in Malatya on 28th October to a Kurdish father and a Turkish mother. When he was six his father, discovering Ahmet’s interest in music, brought a large bağlama for him as a birthday present When he was nine he performed at a Labour Day’s evening entertainment organised by the workers in the factory where his father worked… While at school Kaya had a part-time job at a cassette and record shop that belonged to a family acquaintance. This allowed him to get to know various kinds...

Mısırlı Ahmet ( Ahmet Yıldırım born, 1963 in Ankara, Turkey) is a Turkish virtuoso darbuka player. His music spans various genres and carries influences from Indian, Arabic, Latin American and jazz music. Ahmet Yıldırım started his music life playing a Turkish-style darbuka. He states that he was a fairly ordinary player before his travel to Egypt, to play with and learn from some of the best darbuka players; most of all "to find the meaning of his existence" and "to discover the rhythm". Yıldırım lived in the desert-bound valley of Cairo, during which he developed his unique technique, now known...

Ahmet Kanneci was born in Türkiye, on June 21, 1957; he is a Turkish guitar virtuoso particularly on the Classic style. Currently, Kanneci is the chairman of the Department of Guitar, at Hacettepe University State Conservatory and actively teaching as well. Kanneci first met and instantly fell in love with guitar when he saw a live performance of Alirio Díaz whom he later worked with and mentioned among his teachers. He began his music studies with Turgay Erdener, İstemihan Taviloğlu and Ali Sevgi. Meeting Julian Byzantine, with whom he continued his music studies, in 1977, he turned his attention to...

Ahmet & Dweezil Zappa are the sons of Frank Zappa. Together, they are best known for the song Baby One More Time. .

Style: Minimalique & Electronique Between Istanbul (Turkey) and Essen (Germany), Ahmet Sisman moves through different worlds. Influenced by the mystique music of the Sufi-Culture, his sound has always something dark and powerful with light and tribe culturism. Combining traditional elements in a unique and post-modern way; Ahmet has created his own style. The “multiculti” guy made his debut on the French/Belgian Label Lessizmore beginning 2008 and shortly after the Stock5 Release in June 2008 he got the attention of the big names in the scene. With his third release in '08, Sisman scored a breakthrough with ‘Buiya’ which became a...