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About Bilge Kösebalaban
- Bilge Kösebalaban (born 8 February 1980) is the vocalist and guitar player for Turkish Rock band Direc-t. He was born on the 8 February 1980 in Adana.
- He started his music career in the early days of his youth when he bought his first guitar during high school.
- He continued his music life by participating at the Milliyet’s Music contest and from where he won the first prize in Turkey for songwriting on 3 songs.
- Later on he moved to Ankara to continue his studies at the University of Ankara at the department of Spanish language.
- As he realised that music is the most important thing in his life, he quit the university and moved to Istanbul to become a professional musician.
- Bilge managed to get a lot of attention with his different music and singing style.
- During his stay in Istanbul he met with Özgür Pestimalci and they formed the band "Direc-t".
- "Anything I've done", one of his songs sung with Gülce Duru, has been selected as 2005 a VH1-song of the year December finalist.
- He has sung on Doga icin cal project a Turkish version of Playing for a change.
- He has also made "Arabesque Strings", a Turkish music library album for Muzikotek with Yigit Vural.
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