Vega (band)


Vega is a Turkish alternative rock band, founded by keyboardist Gökhan Mert Koral, vocalist Deniz Özbey, and guitarist Esat Tuğrul Akyüz in 1996. Gökhan Mert Koral left the group in early 2003. They played in many Turkish festivals like Rock'n Coke. Their biggest hits were "Bu Sabahların Bir Anlamı Olmalı", "Serzenişte", and "Elimde Değil".
For their first album Tamam Sustum, the group collaborated with Turgay Gülaydın from Athena and Burak Karataş from Kargo.

Career

Foundation and first album

Vega was founded in 1996 by guitarist Tuğrul Akyüz, keyboardist Mert Koral and vocalist Deniz Özbey. Akyüz and Koral knew each other from their time at the ITU Electronic Engineering and were making music in English since 1992. Together with the Mimar Sinan University graduate, Deniz Özbey, they started to write their own songs, and the first piece, "Tamam Sustum", was noticed by NR1 Müzik's founder Murat Akad, who encouraged the group to keep working on new songs. Deniz Özbey and Tuğrul Akyüz are married since 1999 and have a daughter together.

2000s

The band started working on their new albums in 2000 and new records were made in 2001. In the summer of 2002, the group's second album, Tatlı Sert, was released. The album's production was taken from NR1, and given to Procekts, a music company founded by Teoman and connected to Universal Müzik, but he didn't contribute much to this album due to his own projects. The group performed at their first concert for the album on 2 July 2002 at the H2000 festival. However, due to the financial hardships experienced by the company Universal, only 5000 copies of the album were prepared and not much promotion was done for it.
In 2005, the band started playing new songs at concerts and by the end of the year their third album, Hafif Müzik, was released by Sony BMG. The album's first music video was made for the song "Serzenişte", written by Deniz Özbey and Tuğrul Akyüz. Later, separate music videos were released for the song "Elimde Değil" and "Hafif Müzik". The release of the album was followed by a concert tour inside Turkey. The group also performed at the Rock'n Coke 2006. As the album's tour ended in 2008, Tuğrul and Deniz Akyüz's daughter, Ceylin, was born towards the end of the year.

2010s

In 2015, Vega began new activities and started working for their new album. On 11 September 2017, the album's titled was announced as Delinin Yıldızı and it was released a week later. A concert tour in support of the album began on 30 September, which included 11 concerts.

Discography

Tamam Sustum
  1. Sustum! '
  2. Alışamadım Yokluğuna '
  3. Anlatma '
  4. Vakit Varken '
  5. Oyun '
  6. Blöf '
  7. Tren '
  8. Dokunsana '
  9. Yalan '
  10. Bir Gün Mutlaka '
  11. Alışamadım Yokluğuna - Akustik
Tatlı Sert
  1. Bu Sabahların Bir Anlamı Olmalı '
  2. Bihaber '
  3. Evet, Ne Var? '
  4. İz Bırakanlar Unutulmaz '
  5. Aşk Başlar '
  6. Isınamazsın Ağlarken '
  7. Zat-ı Ali '
  8. Ninni '
  9. Desem de İnanma '
  10. Çok Çektim '
  11. Normal Mi Sence? '
  12. Tadın Kaldı '
  13. Poh Poh Perisi '
Anıl Çifter and Cenk Turanlı played bass guitar, Cengiz Baysal and Timur Kurşunoğlu played drums, İlgen Küçükseller played violin in this album. Singer Teoman was the producer of the album.
Hafif Müzik
  1. K9
  2. Elimde Değil '
  3. Serzenişte '
  4. Mendil '
  5. Yalnızca Ben, Yüzlerce Sen '
  6. Uçları Kırık '
  7. Yok '
  8. Hafif Müzik '
  9. Yanıyor Zaman '
  10. O Şarkı '
  11. Sokaklar Tekin Değil '
  12. Ankara
Delinin Yıldızı
  1. Delinin Yıldızı
  2. İsim - Şehir '
  3. Arzuhal
  4. Sevgilim '
  5. Dertler İri Kıyım '
  6. Komşu Işıklar '
  7. Dünyacım '
  8. Sonunu Söyleme Bana '
  9. Man-yak-lar '
  10. ve Tekrar