Ali Kocatepe is a Turkish composer, songwriter, performer, music producer and sports announcer, born in Izmir on February 25, 1947. He completed his academic career by graduating from Ege University School of Economics and Commercial Sciences in 1974, and recorded his first record called "Boyle Yazmış Yaradan" in 1968.
In July 1973, when he settled in Istanbul, he founded the production company called "1 Number Plakçılık" and he still continues this business. He married vocal artist Aysun Kocatepe in 1985, and the couple has a daughter named İlkyaz. He was elected as Şişli municipal council member from CHP in the 2004 local elections and served in this position for five years.
In his career, he won awards in many national and international competitions and created two musical works called "Şen Sazın Bülbülleri" and "Medya Medya Nereye". In 2006, he collected 26 songs compiled from his 41 years of music life in an album and presented them to the audience, and in 1974 he composed "Run to Antalya", which is considered Turkey's first festival song, for the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival. His album works include the song "41 Kere Maşallah", released in 2006.
Among the works produced by his own voice are pieces such as “I Want a New World” (1970), “Akdeniz Çocukları” (1973) and “Hey, World Hey” (1974); “Hey Go World Hey” received 31 points in the competition and placed third with equal points with Erol Evgin. In 1983, he sang "Heyamola" for the group Mavi Yolcular, which he founded with Sezen Aksu and Coşkun Demir.
This song attracted great attention in the Eurovision Türkiye qualifiers, but could not take part in the final; The 45 version was chosen as the 45 of the year by "Hey" magazine. He also recorded the song "Kordon Boyu Faytonlar" (1993) with Aysun Kocatepe.
The lyrics and compositions he wrote were performed by artists such as Gökben, Aylin Urgal, Nükhet Duru, Ayşegül Aldinç, Sezen Aksu, Mahsun Kırmızıgül and Özdemir Erdoğan; For example, Gökben's songs such as "Neler Neler Oldu", "Diridahdar", "Canın Sağolsun" and "Bu Ne Biçim İştir" (all 1977), Nükhet Duru's songs "Dostluğu Davet", "Melankoli" and "Ben Gene Sana Vurgunum" from 1978, and Ayşegül Aldinç and Modern Folk Trio's songs performed in 1981.
Songs such as "Ferris Wheel", "Meskenim Dağlar" and "A Little Love Tale", performed by Sezen Aksu in 1984 and 1985, stand out. In 2007, he received the Honorary Award at the 34th Golden Butterfly Award Ceremony and in 2011, he published his memoir "Hey Gidi Dünya Hey (I Cooked with Memories, Now I'm Brewing)" from Doğan Kitap.
His first marriage was with Fatma Karanfil in 1975, and his second marriage was with Aysun İnöntepe (Aysun Kocatepe) in 1985, and he continues his music and stage work with this wife.
Productions in which he took part
He took part in 5 productions in total; The 4 most well-known ones are listed.
- Kral Türkiye Music Awards (1995) — Presenter
- Enough, Mother (2002)
- He's Talking About Talk (1991)
- PowerTürk Music Awards (2007) — Presenter
Production and imprint information was taken from TMDB.
