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A Turkish band founded by Gökhan Semiz.

Gökhan Semiz was born 12 Jan, 1969 in İstanbul.
He first fell in love with the music of Barış Manço (also take a role in his music video) and then karaoke his songs. Not too later, he tried to play guitar, and listened Erkin Koray and Cem Karaca.

After all red heavy metal. The trip started with Metallica and Iron Maiden then became a Judas Priest and Dio fan. He founded a cover band named Blasphemous. They made their own songs (some of them is funny ones) and played in Gulhane.
In university he choose to have musical education.
He was writing some funny notes and bringing them into lyrics. He shared this with his friends and try to make a melody on them.
He was playing them himself, using an electrorhytm instrument, an electric guitar.
At that time it all was to make fun, but then things became serious and they made their first album Bol Vitamin.
In 1998 he died in an car accident that his friend was driving drunk.

The band chose oftenly to make parodies of popular Turkish/English songs (including "Can't Touch This" of MC Hammer and "Day-O" of BeetleJuice soundtrack) with funny lyrics. Some of their songs criticized the government using humor (like "Saskin Demokrat") while the others made fun of Turkish people who were in-between modernism and conservatism (like "Turkish Cowboys" and "Ellere Var Da Bize Yok Mu").

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