Recep Aktuğ

Recep Aktuğ was born on May 13, 1954 in Çeşme district of İzmir. Aktuğ, who was interested in music from an early age, completed his primary and secondary education in Izmir. While he was in high school, he took his first step into professional music life with the Anatolian Pop group Gelenek, which he founded in 1973. He gained stage experience with his first concert at Izmir's famous Mogambo Night Club.

In 1974, he moved to Istanbul to continue his education and started studying at Şişli School of Political Sciences. During this period, he took part in another group called Grup Studio. While continuing his school life, he worked in different professions such as marketing and graphic design. Then, he started his journalism career through his friend Tufan Aksoy and worked as a reporter in Hürriyet's Weekend supplement under the management of Çetin Emeç.

After one and a half years of journalism experience, he turned to the organization sector and started working at Şat Yapım. He took part in the management of various festivals held in Antalya, Anamur and Kyrenia.

After the closure of Şat Yapım with the end of the festivals, Baha Boduroğlu founded a company called Arı Yapım together with Ertuğrul Çayıroğlu and Tuğrul Karataş. The company's first artist was Sezen Aksu, and among her first works was Lost Years. Then they implemented their project called Disko Fasıl; but this partnership did not last long.

Aktuğ opened a new page in the music world by establishing Kısa Dalga Vokal Group, Turkey's first accompaniment vocal group, in 1976. He participated in the Golden Orange Song Contest held in Antalya in 1978 with two of his compositions and won the second and seventh prizes.

In 1978, she performed with Ajda Pekkan at Super Show and with Sezen Aksu at Caddebostan Maksim Casino. In 1979, he took part in the Eurovision qualifiers together with Cantekin. His first single, Departed Youth/My Dear, which he released in 1981, attracted great attention. In 1983, he won the Eurovision Türkiye qualifiers with Buğra Uğur's composition and represented our country in Germany together with Çetin Alp.

On the other hand, both his compositions and lyrics were performed by many famous artists. During the same period, he also appeared in commercials and TV series.

Recep Aktuğ, who had been struggling with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) for many years, passed away on January 14, 2020, at the age of 65. After the funeral ceremony held the next day, his body was buried in Zincirlikuyu Cemetery.

Productions in which he took part

• Valley of the Wolves (2003) — Mogoko Consul
• Eurovision Song Contest (1956) — Self - Contestant
• Aşk-ı Memnu (2008) — Hilmi Önal
• All 1 (2007)
• Blue Butterflies (2011) — Radovan Karadzic
• Conquest 1453 (2012) — Constantine XI
• Crazy Classroom at University (2014) — Fuat Hoca
• Purgatory 2 (2019) — Doctor
• Kollama (2008) — Haldun Fırat
• 10 Ways to Forget Your Ex (2015)
• Until 3 Time (2018)

Production and imprint information was taken from TMDB.