Sırrı Murat Dalkılıç (born 7 August 1983) is a

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pop singer, songwriter, music producer, film and animation producer, director and actor.

Career

Murat Dalkılıç was born in

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and lived in

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. He studied piano at the age of 15 and founded his first music group. At a young age, he was also interested in

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, athleticism, swimming enrolling in Kuşadası Spor Basketball team where he played professionally at age 17 and had to put his music career on hold. He won the medals in Grand Atatürk Run and swimming contest. He studied at acting department of

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. After graduation, he enrolled in the Master program in Bilgi University specializing in acting in Cinema-Television. He also had international film, music and animation company "Gig Production". Onur Can Çaylı who worked in Game of Thrones, Avengers: Age of Ultron, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, joined this company. Murat Dalkılıç is also director of film "Ustalar Alemi" and short film "19 Mayıs 100. yıl" . He played in Dünya Hali, Bizans Oyunları, Sil Baştan, Mazlum Kuzey. In December 2020, he appeared as a guest in an episode of the TV series ''Menajerimi Ara''.

Music

His first single "Kasaba" (meaning "town") written by

Soner Sarıkabadayı Soner Sarıkabadayı (born 8 December 1978) is a Turkish pop music singer and songwriter. Early life Soner Sarıkabadayı was born on 8 December 1978 in the Province of Kahramanmaraş Province Kahramanmaraş Province kurdish( tr, Kahraman ...

and music composed by Tolga Kılıç was released in October 2008 by Dokuz Sekiz Müzik label gained popularity after being picked by Turkish radio stations. Soon a music video followed that was launched in December 2008. The video featured Dalkılıç' friend

Murat Boz Murat Boz (born 7 March 1980) is a Turkish singer, songwriter and actor. Boz began his solo career by releasing his first single, " Aşkı Bulamam Ben", in 2006. In the following year his first studio album titled ''Maximum'' (2007) was releas ...

. The single reached No.1 on the

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chart and stayed at the top of the Turkish charts for a total of seven weeks. He released EP "Kasaba" including his own song and a cover song. He was signed in 2009 to "Sony Music Entertainment", recording three albums. His first album "Merhaba" released on 4 June 2010. Music clips of songs "La Fontaine", "Külah", "Kıyamadım İkimize", "Merhaba Merhaba", "Dönmem" ve "Çatlat" in the album were released. His second album had three other singles: "Kader", "Bi Hayli" and "Lüzumsuz Savaş", which topped the charts in 2012. His 2012 single "Bir Güzellik Yap" in same album also topped the Türkçe Top 20. "İki Yol", "Yani" and "Leyla" were the other singles of the third album. His 2014 single "Derine" also topped the charts. The music video was 9 minutes with a lot of actions and his partner was Özge Özpirincci who is a Turkish famous actress. He wrote the lyrics of "Kırk Yılda Bir Gibisin" song which was featured on Emrah Karaduman's album. He composed "Ben Kalp Sen" for the series Aşk Yeniden. He is composer of "Fırça" and co-composer of "Şahaneyim" which was performed by Zeynep Bastık. His fourth album ''Epik'' was released in 2016 and its first music video "Ben Bilmem" was filmed by Bedran Güzel. His fifth album "Afeta" was released in 2019.

Personal life

From 2015 to 2017, he was married to actress

Merve Boluğur Merve Boluğur (born 16 September 1987) is a Turkish actress and model. She is well known for her roles in fantasy series '' Acemi Cadı'' (the Turkish version of ''Sabrina the Teenage Witch''), '' Küçük Sırlar'' (the Turkish version of ''Go ...

Discography

Studio albums

EPs

Charts

Music videos

Filmography

Director

*Ustalar Alemi *19 Mayıs 100. yıl (short film)

Television

Film

Web

References

External links

Last.fm page (Turkish)
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Murat Dalkılıç
on

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