Kazım Koyuncu is tagged as: turkish, folk, karadeniz, turkish folk, laz rock
Kazım Koyuncu was a Turkish folk-rock singer, song writer, and activist. Widely known as a Black Sea folk musician, Kazım Koyuncu (born 1972) was not only a turning point in musical development of Black Sea region of Turkey, but also a member of the first Laz rock band in the world “Zuğaşi Berepe” and composer of significant projects.|Born to a Laz family living in the green village of Hopa, Artvin in the most north-eastern coastal part of Turkey, he spent his childhood listening to his very beloved grandmother’s tales and one of his best musicians “Yaşar Turna” whom he called my master. The first instrument of Kazım was the mandolin his father, Cavit Koyuncu, bought for him. However, when his uncle dwelling in Germany left his guitar at Artvin, he had found his main instrument. Due to the influences of French poets Rimbaud and Baudelaire on Kazım during the years of high school, he would be called “Şair Ceketli Çocuk” (The Boy with a Poet Jacket) among his friends in spite of the fact that he never became a poet. Entering the Public Management of İstanbul University Political Sciences Faculty in 1989, he went to İstanbul, but at the end of first year he left the school thinking that he wouldn’t be appointed as a head official of a district even when he...
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