ERCAN AKBAY

Ercan Akbay was born on 12th February in Istanbul. Beginning from when he first picked up a book, he has not been able to stop reading ever since. As a young man, he admired the contemporary Latin and Anglo-Saxon singer-poets, and started to try composing poetry in his own style on a guitar that had taken him a few weeks to learn how to play.
Starting from that age, he has continued to show the same dilligence in all three arts that he works with. He describes his music, painting and writing as the means for him to express the exciting flavours of the adventures he has lived through and the complicated state of his inner world.
The same day he started university, he began working. After adventurous years in the tourism and electronics sectors, he began to work for himself meaning that he had to do many different things at the same time and that he became accustomed to viewing life as a game. He managed a jazz club; he founded companies in various fields; he got involved in financial markets. He has worked in the stock market, real estate, music and ballet production, old film and record restoration, concert and sound recording and film montage, book cover and poster design, and other fields, and still continues to work in some of them today.
The artist, who in 1989 had produced a performance of his spoken and sung poetry telling the story of deep pain and partings, unhealthy passions, death, split personalities and thoughts against the system that he had put to music in his own inimitable way as 'A Summer's Night', also released in 1996 'Tales of the Weird', an experimental album based on his book of the same name.
Towards the end of 1997, he wrote 'Men Don't Cry'. Due to both of these books being sold out and to a problem with the publishing house he was working for at the time, there was a five-year gap in his life as a writer from 2002. In 2006, he finished his detective novel, 'What Time is It Mr Wolf?', that had originally started life as a TV script. In 2007, he reached an agreement on the reprinting of all his books.
As it is in his paintings, in all his books, the writer has a linguistic and narrative style completely his own. xAlvin Parmar Editor

Education :

İ.Ü.Faculty of Business Administration 1978-84
Kadiköy Maarif College 1970-78

Paintings :

After a series of personal exhibitions which included his work from 1983 to 1991, until 2006, he had not painted for 15 years. His expressive works from after 2006 were exhibited between 10th and 31st June, 2007 at Moda Deniz Klübü Art Gallery.

Books :

Tales of the Weird - Arion Story Series
Istanbul April 1997 1. Impression
March 2002 2.Impression

Men Don't Cry - Arion Criminal Zone/Novel
Istanbul October 1997 1.Impression

What Time is It, Mr Wolf ? - Arion Criminal Zone/Novel
Istanbul March 2007 1.Impression
June 2007 2.Impression

Music Albums :

A Summer's Night - 1989 Adventure Records
Tales of the Weird - 1996 Audeon Music