Mehmet Ergin

Mehmet Ergin (* 1956 in Istanbul ) is a Turkish born German guitarist , composer and music producer . His numerous pieces of music, composed for advertising and as television jingles , achieved great fame .

Life

At the age of six, the son of a dancer and a musician came to Bremen with his family with the first wave of Turkish guest workers . Here he spent his further childhood. At a young age, Ergin began composing his first own melodies. He founded his first band at the age of 16. After graduating from high school, Ergin began studying to become a teacher , but finally decided on a career as a professional musician. At the age of 25 he was already known as a jazz guitarist in the scene through appearances with musicians such as Albert Mangelsdorff or Joachim Kühn .

To date there are well over a hundred productions in which Ergin has participated. He has worked with stars such as Ute Lemper , Michy Reincke and Katharina Franck , among others .

Ergin also produced music himself at an early age, for example the Low German music album by the Kiel duo Erichsen Must di ni agern in 1983 , for which he also composed, arranged and played the guitars. In 1986 he founded a music production with a studio in Hamburg . As part of this, he produced well-known advertising music and jingles for Mercedes , Sparkasse , Otto-Versand and RTL2, among others .

His first independent album as a solo guitarist was Beyond The Seven Hills (1996). This received an Echo nomination for “Best Jazz Production” and for a long time ranked in the world music charts of the music week .

Ergin also composes scores for films and series, for example in 2001 he wrote the score for Buket Alakuş's movie Anam , which was shown on ARTE and ZDF as well as being published as a soundtrack album.

The guitarist makes himself rather rare in concerts, but still had remarkable appearances, for example at the Strings of Fire Festival in Leipzig's Gewandhaus .

With Ergin Records , the musician founded his own music label in 2002 , under which he released his second solo album Tales from Enchanted Gardens (2003), among other things .

Music genre

Ergin's style of music can hardly be determined; it moves between areas as diverse as world music , classical music and jazz and processes elements of both western and oriental musical traditions. Early works by him were sometimes assigned to Krautrock or Progressive Rock , for example the album Must di ni agern, produced in Kiel in 1983 .

Awards

Nomination of the album Beyond The Seven Hills for the Echo in the category "Best Jazz Production"
Two weeks “CD of the week” on Klassik Radio for Beyond The Seven Hills

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personal data
SURNAME	Ergin, Mehmet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German guitarist, composer and music producer
DATE OF BIRTH	1956
PLACE OF BIRTH	Istanbul