Ozan Çolakoğlu (, born 1 April 1972) is a Turkish composer,

songwriter A songwriter is a musician who professionally composes musical compositions or writes lyrics for songs, or both. The writer of the music for a song can be called a composer, although this term tends to be used mainly in the classical music ...

and

music producer A record producer is a recording project's creative and technical leader, commanding studio time and coaching artists, and in popular genres typically creates the song's very sound and structure. Virgil Moorefield"Introduction" ''The Producer as ...

; famous for his work with various Turkish pop singers and his multiple

film score A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film. The score comprises a number of orchestral, instrumental, or choral pieces called cues, which are timed to begin and end at specific points during the film in order to e ...

s. He co-founded the production company ''Sarı Ev'' (Yellow House), but left it in 2010 to work for ''dB Müzik''.

Life and career

Ozan Çolakoğlu was born in

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in 1972. He attended the Berklee College of MusicTarkanDeluxe
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''. Besides working continuously with the Turkish pop idol, he also contributed to the albums of such notable artists like

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or the well known all-female Turkish rock band, Pin-up. In the music world he is also known for his remixes under the name ''Ozinga''. He arranged " Every Way That I Can", the song

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won the Eurovision contest with. Years later, he would go on to arrange another Eurovision hit "

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", written by his friend

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. Ozan Çolakoğlu is also credited for co-writing several of Tarkan's songs, including the second (European) version of " Şımarık". Apart from Tarkan, he worked for Nilüfer (albums ''Karar Verdim'' and ''Hayal'', single "Zalimin Kararı"),

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, Ümit Sayın, Pınar Aylin, Gökçe, Yaşar, Çelik Erişçi, Özgün, Kızlar, Tan Taşçi (song "İşaret"),

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(song "Çantada Keklik"), Gülşen (complete album ''Önsöz''). His works include the scores of such popular movies like ''

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'', '' Sınav'' or '' Organize İşler''.Ozan Colakoglu film scores
- Milliyet Sinema

Discography

;Studio albums * ''01'' (2012) (sales: 72,998)

Collaborations with other artists

Albums

Singles

Remixes

Film scores

References

External links

Ozan Çolakoğlu official website

dB Müzik

Sarı Ev official website
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