Melendiz (musician)

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Singles
Fuck You All
  DE 19th 06/21/2004 (13 weeks)
  AT 14th 06/20/2004 (16 weeks)

Volkan Melendiz (born June 14, 1982 in Berlin ) is a pop musician who grew up in the Berlin district of Neukölln , who had a hit both as a solo artist and as one half of the Bassturk duo .

Life

Melendiz was born to Turkish parents as one of three siblings in Germany. At the age of ten he started composing his own songs. After graduating from high school , he began studying mathematics at the TU Berlin .

Artistic work

As a musician, Melendiz achieved a certain degree of fame both as a solo artist and within the Bassturk duo. In both contexts, albums were announced that had not yet been released by the end of 2009.

As a solo artist

His English-language song Fuck You All, based on the tune of Habanera by Georges Bizet, was published in 2004 and was in the Top Twenty in Germany , Austria and Switzerland and has appeared on numerous hit samplers. Initially, the major publishing label assumed that Melendiz was an "American from the vicinity of Jay-Z and P. Diddy ". The Fuck You All video ran on music television and youth magazines such as BRAVO reported on the newcomer . Two more English-language publications followed. However, there was no commercial success.

With Bassturk

As Duo Bassturk, Melendiz had another success in 2006 together with his friend Tamer Uygunsözlü, now in German and Turkish . Yana Yana , a mixture of Turkish pop, rap and R&B , also appeared on a Bravo hit sampler in Switzerland. The duo appeared on several German television and radio broadcasts. You could also be seen as the opening act at German concerts of the Turkish stars Gülşen and Mustafa Sandal and at the Turkish Day in Berlin in 2006.

Discography

Maxi CDs

  • 2004: Fuck You All (Universal)
  • 2004: What Da Thang ?! (Universal)
  • 2006: Bassturk - Yana Yana (Universal)

Extra CD

  • M (2004)

Sampler contributions

Fuck You All

  • Dragostea Summer Hits (A2N)
  • The Dome - Summer 2004 (Universal)
  • Ballermann Hits 2004 (EMI)
  • Bravo Hits 46 (Universal Music, in all Bravo Hits Edition)
  • Bravo Black Hits Vol. 11 (Universal)
  • Fetenhits - Best Of 2004 (Polystar)

Yana Yana

  • Bravo Hits 54 (Sony BMG, in all Bravo Hits Edition)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: DE ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. AT @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musicline.de
  2. ↑ http://www.netzeitung.de/entertainment/music/297650.html ( Memento from April 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Melendiz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Melendiz, Volkan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pop musician
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin