Gökhan Özen

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**Gökhan Özen**

Born:	November 29, 1979 Ankara, Turkey
Occupation:	Singer
Website:	gokhanozen.com.tr

Gökhan Özen (born November 29, 1979) is a Turkish pop and Turkish folk musician. He currently resides in Ankara, Turkey. He has been releasing albums since the year 2000. His most recent album "Kalbim Seninle/One More Time" was a large hit throughout Turkey. This "Maxi Single" (a term used in Turkey to describe an EP Single) contained one song by famous turkish composer Nazan Oncel called "Benim için Napardın." It also contained a remix to "Kader Utansın," one popular song from his previous album "Asılında." This album also contained Gökhan's first English song "One More Time."

1 Early life
2 Musician Gokhan Ozen
3 Height of his career
4 Setbacks
5 One More Time
6 Sevda Cicegi
7 Discography:
8 See also
9 External links

[edit] Early life

Gökhan Özen was born in Ankara, Turkey. He explains on his site that "Since then, I knew that I was destined to be a musician." During his childhood, he went to TED for his elementary middle, and high school. Afterwards he joined the Ankara community opera. Gökhan also participated in the Ankara community choir. During this time, he saved up money during this time for his dream, to be a musician. In 1988, he started taking choir classes from top choir singers in Ankara, Turkey. This helped improve his vocal talents. His teachers include Özgen Gürbüz, Kemal Caner, and Cemile Uncu. A few years later, Gökhan also started taking classic guitar and percussion lessons. In 1996, He joined the İstanbul Technical University. Being one of the rare few people from Ankara to gain admission to an İstanbul university, he had to buy a bus ticket to be able to travel to İstanbul. In 1997, he started a radio show on Turkish radio channel Radyo Tatlıses. This show turned out to be a hit and as a result Gökhan Özen finally had enough money to start working for his dream as a musician. One year later, in 1998, he joined the İstanbul Gitar Eğitimi which gave the top level guitar lessons in Turkey and was only for skilled musicians. In 1999, he started another program Gökhan Özen'le Canli Canli (Live Live with Gökhan Özen).

[edit] Musician Gokhan Ozen

In the year 2000, Gökhan Özen released his first album. Titled Özelsin, this album was a collection of songs that Gökhan Özen had put together. Unfortunately, this album was published by Şahin Özer Müzik and not enough copies were made for the album to be widely distributed across Turkey. However, this was only a starting point. His next album would have much greater fame.

[edit] Height of his career

Duman Gözlüm by Gökhan Özen

After the release of his first album, Gökhan released a second album Duman Gözlüm. Unlike his first album, this album was a big hit and sold tons of copies. The hit song from this album was Aramazsan Arama. This album sold more copies than all other albums of the year except the new album of famous Turkish pop star Tarkan.

[edit] Setbacks

Civciv by Gökhan Özen

After this album however, Gökhan's fame slowly faded. His second release Civciv was an excellent album. However, during the first days of the album, Gökhan Özen was lost in the sea while he was on his jet ski. When he was found a few days later, people focused more on this recent event than his album, so it was never widely sold. However, after months of the release of his album, Gökhan was able to come up with a remix to one of his songs "Aman Boşver". He added the remix as the first track to his Civciv album, which made not as much copies sold as his previous Duman Gözlüm album, but still helped him gain more fans for the album. This same year, he entered the University entrance exam and earned entry to the psychology division of İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi. During his later music career, he continued his education from that school. His next album, Asilinda was also not a big hit. After the release of the album, Gökhan was accused of murder. In court, he was proven guilty and he spent one to two months in jail till he was finally released because the accuser had started accusing someone else. Gökhan was innocent.

[edit] One More Time

Kalbim Seninle by Gökhan Özen

In 2005, Gökhan Özen released a Maxi Single titled Kalbim Seninle/One More Time. Unlike his bad luck in the last two albums, this album turned out to be a big hit. This album also featured his first English track titled "One More Time". After two weeks of the release of the album, he released the music video for the first track on the album "Benim için Napardın." This was also a big hit. Gökhan's bad luck had finally ended.

[edit] Sevda Cicegi

Gökhan Özen; 2005

Sevda Çiçeği, a show appearing on private turkish channel called SHOW TV Gökhan Özen starred in the role of "Selim," a spolied rich person who did not appreciate what he had and only cared about his girlfriend, Nazan. Nazan had a job as a singer at a nearby bar and saw Selim as the path to finally be rich. Selim's dad, played by famous Turkish actor "Savaş Dinçel," did not want his son to consume all of his money that had came from his hard work as CEO of a big company in Turkey. The show is a big hit. It was voted as the "most popular Turkish show of summer 2006."

[edit] Discography:

Year	Title
2000	Özelsin	(You're Special)
2001	Duman Gözlüm	(My smokey-eyed)
2002	Duman Gözlüm (Remix)	(My smokey-eyed (Remixes))
2003	Civciv	(Baby chicken/Chick)
2003	Civciv (Aman Boşver Remix)	(Baby chicken/Chick (The "Let it Go" Remix) )
2004	Herşeyde Biraz Sen Varsın	(There is a little bit of you in everything)
2004	Aslında	(Actually)
2005	Kalbim Seninle	(My Heart is with you)