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

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, member of the renowned band

MFÖ Mazhar-Fuat-Özkan (MFÖ), also known by their original name Mazhar ve Fuat, is a Turkish pop and rock band with Mazhar Alanson, Fuat Güner and Özkan Uğur as members. While many of their songs poke fun at common Turkish types ("Ali Desider ...

and an actor.

Early life

He was born on 1 April 1948 in Istanbul, Turkey to a renowned photographer father, Sami Güner. He is of partial Albanian descent. During his school years at

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in Istanbul, he was a very active sportsman, playing

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, volleyball and sailing. He became a champion in the

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category of college athletics 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 Mazhar Alanson, and soon the two formed the band "Kaygısızlar" ("The Carefree") inspired by the Beatles. Özkan Uğur 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

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's band. MFÖ worked with Turkey's most popular singer Ajda Pekkan, 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,

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

Discography

Solo albums

* ''

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'' (1999) * '' Dinleyene Aşk Olsun'' (2010)

As guest artist

* '' Dünya Benim'' (2001) -

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''(Aşk Var Ya)'' * '' Sihirbaz'' (2009) -

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(''Ateş Ve Suyun Aşkı'') * '' Göğe Selam'' (2011) -

(''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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Guner, Fuat 1948 births Musicians from Istanbul Turkish pop musicians Turkish male stage actors Turkish film score composers Living people Turkish male film actors Eurovision Song Contest entrants for Turkey Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 1985 Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 1988 St. Joseph High School Istanbul alumni