Biography
Cengiz Onural is a talented Turkish musician-composer ( Yeni Türkü, Incesaz ) who was born in 1961 in Istanbul. He received a mechanical engineering education but after a seven years of professional experience as an engineer, he left it for music and he has been making music professionally since 1996. He plays kemençe, guitar, rebap , cura
Onural was a member of group Yeni Türkü 1985 to 1997 as a composer, lyricist and musician. During this time, Onural worked in the production of nine albums with the group.
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Since 1985, Onural has been composing for and performing with his groups. His works include music for five films, twenty-six television films, seven documentaries, about twenty television series and five multimedia projects.
Five amongst these works were released as soundtrack albums: Super Baba (with group Yeni Türkü), Babaevi (Cengiz Onural), Deliyürek 1 (with group Aria), Deliyürek 2 (with group Aria) and Ikinci Bahar (with group Incesaz).
Onural founded Incesaz in 1997 and has been a member since. Other key members include Derya Turkan and Murat Aydemir. They have produced 6 albums up to now.
Onural has been collaborating with Muammer Ketencoglu , accordionist and researcher in Balkan Music, since 1986. Onural has been a member of his various ensembles such as Incesaz and DemBuDem, and participated in his albums as a composer, arranger and player.
Cengiz onural's album “a breath of life” was released by Kalan Music.
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