Fuat Saka

Fuat Saka
File:Fuat Saka.jpg Fuat Saka at the Diyarbakir Kültür Sanat Festivali.
Background information
Born	1952 (age 71–72) Trabzon, Turkey
Occupation(s)	Singer, songwriter, arranger, multi-instrumentalist
Instruments	Guitar

Fuat Saka (born 1952 in Trabzon, Turkey), is a Turkish singer, songwriter, arranger, and guitarist (although he may be more precisely called a multi-instrumentalist).

Saka received art training in İstanbul and later music training in France and Germany. He had to leave Turkey in 1980, after the coup for political reasons. He lived in Europe up until 1998, travelling and collaborating with numerous musicians. Saka still divides most of his time between İstanbul, Hamburg, and Paris and tours several countries with his Fuat Saka International Group consisting of German, American, Georgian, and Azerbaijani musicians. He is of also Georgian descent by his mother. He has performed with Greek musicians Nikos Papazoglou and Dionysis Savvopoulos since the mid-1980s.

Discography

• 1982 Yıkılır Zulmün Son Kaleleri
• 1983 Ayrılık Türküsü
• 1984 Kerem Gibi
• 1987 Sevdalı Türküler (Poems of Nazım Hikmet)
• 1988 Nebengleis (Kenardaki Ray)
• 1989 Askaros
• 1991 Semahlar ve Deyişler
• 1993 Şiirce
• 1994 Torik Baliklar Ülkesinde
• 1996 Arhavili İsmail
• 1997 Lazutlar
• 1998 Sen
• 2000 Lazutlar II
• 2001 Perçem Perçem
• 2002 Lazutlar III
• 2006 Bir Sürgünün Not Defteri