"Pain & Suffering in various tempos" The statement above will remind you the last album of Depeche Mode, Playing the Angel. However it also describes the more than 25 years long career of Cengiz Kurtoglu. He was born in the Artvin province of Turkey in 1959, the name Cengiz is the modern Turkish transcription of the name of Turco-Mongol warrior Genghis Khan. He worked as a civil servant at a tea factory in Artvin and then in 1982 migrated to Istanbul to make his dreams come true.
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"Pain & Suffering in various tempos" The statement above will remind you the last album of Depeche Mode, Playing the Angel. However it also describes the more than 25 years long career of Cengiz Kurtoglu. He was born in the Artvin province of Turkey in 1959, the name Cengiz is the modern Turkish transcription of the name of Turco-Mongol warrior Genghis Khan. He worked as a civil servant at a tea factory in Artvin and then in 1982 migrated to Istanbul to make his dreams come true. Inspired a lot by the works of Gary Numan and Joy Division he started playing keyboards and singing in the local clubs and restaurants, at the same period he recorded a demo tape and sent it to a record label. In 1983 his first album "Sen Sözden Anlamazsın" (You Don't Get The Words) was released and he became very popular. His later albums were not only commercial miracles but helped him building an extremely dedicated fan group called as "Cengizciler". Fans call him as "Cengiz Baba" which means "Father Cengiz" in Turkish. Today he is one of the symbol names of '80s for Turkey and he still releases albums full of dark love songs. At the same time he is also a successful businessman, he is the chairman of his own record label "SIMA".
