Daily Caricature .. Barış Manço

Barış Manço .. Caricature by Huseyin Cakmak - Cyprus

 

Mehmet Barış Manço (2 January 1943 – 1 February 1999), better known by his stage name Barış Manço, was a Turkish rock musician, singer, composer, actor, television producer and show host.

 

Beginning his musical career while attending Galatasaray High School, he was a pioneer of rock music in Turkey and one of the founders of the Anatolian rock genre, Manço composed around 200 songs and is among the best-selling and most awarded Turkish artists to date.

 

Many of his songs were translated into a variety of languages including English, French, Japanese, Greek, Italian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Persian, Hebrew, Urdu, Arabic, and German, among others.