Biografie

was born in Turkey and pulled with his family after Washington D.C., when its father became Ertegn of Turkish Ambassadors in the USA.

With the twenty-three years it created end of the 1940er years as well as its older brother Nesuhi (1917 - 1989) and friends (producer Tom Dowd, Jerry Wexler and other one) the company Atlantic record.

Vocational successes

The company became into the 1960er years one of the large labels within the range jazz and Popmusik.

First successes could celebrate the brothers with Rhythm and Blues artists such as Joe Turner, Ruth Brown, The Clovers, The of Drifters and Ray Charles. It succeeded to them to develop the R&B category from a fringe group topic to an important part of the music scene further. wrote a set of classical Blues pieces, among them also "“chain OF Love and "“Sweet Sixteen"”, which it published under the alias "“A. Nugetre"” (its name backwards written).

Into the 1960er years heard demo of the group LED Zeppelin. This convinced immediately and it LED Zeppelin under contract took it after the first songs. It convinced also David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash to also take Neil Young on tour and contributed in such a way to the establishment of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.

used its negotiation fate in negotiations with important music star. So for example, when the Rolling Stones looked for a disk company, around its independent label Rolling Stones record to marked out. negotiated personally with Mick Jagger and could lock the business between the Rolling Stones and Atlantic, although other labels had offered volume more money to that than Atlantic record.

gave in the middle of the 1980er years suggestion for establishment the skirt and roll resounds to OF Fame.Seit approx. to 2002 works it with Tarkan at its 1. Album in English.

Prices and honors

1987 to the skirt & roll resound to OF Fame taken up. Its brother followed in the year 1991.

For its earnings/services in the music business 1993 the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award was lent to it. Its brother received the same price 1995.

Other

In the film "“Ray"”, the Biografie of Ray Charles, of Curtis Armstrong represented. In "“Beyond the Sea"”, a film over Bobby therein, he is played by Tayfun Bademsoy.

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