Murat Yılmazyıldırım, born on May 9, 1964, is an artist who is both a musician and a writer. In 1993, he founded the group called "Düş Sokak Sakinleri" together with Murat Çelik and performed many stage performances during that period. The group disbanded after the concert series ended in 1999, and during this period, Çelik decided to take a break from his music career.
Yılmazyıldırım turned this situation into an opportunity and continued his solo works under the pseudonym "Painter of Dreams".
In his solo career, he wrote and composed more than 1,000 songs and released fourteen albums in total. While he attracted attention especially with his song "As We Cry", which was included in the mixed album "Urban Poets", he also met with the audience with his song "Unknown Elçileri" with Mercan Dede in the album "Homegrown Istanbul Vol. 2".
Three albums were released during the band period: \"Düş Sokak\" (September 1993, Piccatura), \"As I Live\" (February 1997, EMI) and \"Three\" (November 1999, EMI). He started his solo album series in 1998 with "Yelkenin Gözyaşları" (Island), followed by "Kırık Yelken" (2000, EMI-KENT), "Cennet" (February 2002, EMI-KENT), "Spell" (October 2003, EMI-KENT) and the double disc "Black Love is White" He continued with works such as "Submissions" (2004, EMI‑KENT).
In the following years, he continued his productivity with projects such as "The Tree of Tears is Calling You" (2005, EMI-KENT), "Love is Different at 0°" (2007, Island), "Untitled" (2008, Seyhan), "Three Seasons One Death - Three Deaths One Season" (2009, Sony), and in 2011, "I Drank a Potion, I Changed" (Anadolu) and "Aşk‑ı Âlem" (Anadolu), the two-disc set "Ayna ve Aynadakiler" (Anadolu) in 2014, and the album "Düş Öncesi" (Gar Music) in 2015.
In 2021, he published his work "Anonymous Longing" under the label Gloss Musik GmbH, and in the same year, he took a step in the literary field and presented his book "Free Verse Symbolic Schizophrenia", published by Beyaz Balina Publications in 2002, to his readers.
