İbrahim Tatlıses

İbrahim Tatlıses
Background information
Also known as	İbo
Occupations	Singer, actor, director, writer, producer, businessman
Instruments	davul, zurna, violin
Years active	1970 - present
Labels	Various
Website	İbrahim Tatlıses

İbrahim Tatlıses, also known as İbo (born January 1, 1952), is a Turkish pop-folk singer and actor. He was born in the city of Şanlıurfa, in southeastern Anatolia. Tatlıses has recorded 25 albums, including notable albums such as Ayağında Kundura and Selam Olsun. He is also the host of the television programme İbo Show and is a leading actor who has appeared in several dozen films. He has directed most of the films he acted in. Besides, he is a businessman involved in the restaurant and tourism businesses, as well as in construction projects in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Biography

İbrahim Tatlıses was born in the south-eastern town of Sanliurfa to a Kurdish father (Ahmet Tatli) and an Arab mother named Leyla Tatli. His father died when he was a child, and Tatlıses was raised by his Mother Leyla. He began singing at weddings when he was young.

Then while he was working in constructions as a normal worker, singing, his singing was heard by a businessman from Adana, and he started appearing in nightclubs.

Ayağında Kundura, released in 1975 helped him spread his name throughout Turkey.

He now has a lot of companies in various industries and had been a candidate in the 2007 General Elections in Turkey, in which his party, Genç Parti could not overcome the election threshold of 10% which further resulted in him not being elected.

Shootings

He was shot in the leg in 1990, and survived an assassination attempt in 1998. In March 2011, he was attacked, and was wounded seriously in the head.

2011 Shooting

On Monday March 14, 2011, at 00:30 local time, Ibrahim Tatlises and his spokeswoman Buket Çakıcı were shot at by unknown assailants after leaving the offices of the private Turkish channel Beyaz TV following his weekly television show. While entering their vehicle Tatlises was hit with a bullet that entered the back of his skull and exited through the front. His spokeswoman was also hit, in the neck, but is now in stable condition. The perpetrators carried Kalashnikov rifles and escaped in a black car. He was taken to the Acıbadem Hospital in İstanbul for emergency treatment. He underwent a four-hour surgery to remove the bullet and is now slowly recovering from critical condition. After Tatlises's operation he was in a stable condition and put to rest for a week. Then the doctors made the announcement saying he is recovering well and healing. Turkey's prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited him to see how he was coping. He then made an announcement publicly reporting he is in a good condition and his traveling along fine. The police in turkey have reported to caught up to 20 criminals involving the shoot-out. On Thursday April the 7th, Tatlıses left Acıbadem Hospital with a police escort and traveled to Atatürk airport where he boarded the Ministry of Health’s Hawker 900XP air ambulance at 5:45 p.m. bound for Germany, where he will receive six months of physical rehabilitation in a condensed period of one month. He returned from Germany.

Ibrahim got married to Ayşegül Yıldız in the Dar Al shifaa hospital on Sept. 27th 2011.

Discography

1. 1965 Ozel Album
2. 1970 Kara Kız
3. 1974 Palandöken Plak
4. 1975 Ben İnsan Değil Miyim?
5. 1975 Ayağında Kundura
6. 1975 Yağmur
7. 1976 Urfa Emektaroglu Bant Studyosu
8. 1976 Ashab Gecesi
9. 1978 Ölürsem Kabrime Gelme Istemem
10. 1978 Doldur Kardeş Icelim
11. 1980 Ceylan
12. 1981 Acı Gerçekler
13. 1982 Yalan
14. 1983 Yaşamak Bu Değil
15. 1984 Benim Hayatim
16. 1984 Mutlu Ol Yeter
17. 1985 Mavi Mavi
18. 1986 Gülüm Benim
19. 1987 Allah Allah - Hülya
20. 1986 Amerika Konseri
21. 1988 Kara Zindan
22. 1989 Fosforlu Cevriyem
23. 1989 Insanlar
24. 1990 Ben Aşk İçin Ölürüm
25. 1990 Söylim Mi - Hesabim Var
26. 1991 Vur Gitsin Beni - Yemin Ettim
27. 1992 Ah Keşkem
28. 1993 Mega Aşk
29. 1994 Haydi Söyle
30. 1995 Klasikleri
31. 1996 Bende Isterem
32. 1996 Türkü Dinle Türkü Söyle
33. 1998 At Gitsin
34. 1998 Sabuha
35. 1999 Selam Olsun
36. 2001 Yetmez Mi
37. 2002 Megamix
38. 2003 Tek Tek
39. 2003 Yaşamak Bu Değil
40. 2004 Imparatordan Uzun Havalar
41. 2004 Aramam
42. 2005 Israil Konseri
43. 2005 Sizler Için
44. 2007 Türküler
45. 2007 Bulamadim
46. 2008 Neden
47. 2009 Benim Remixlerim
48. 2009 Yağmurla Gelen Kadin
49. 2009 Iste Tatlises
50. 2010 Imparatorun Doğuşu
51. 2010 Hani Gelecektin
52. 2011 Mucize

Filmography

Actor

1. 1978: Sabuha
2. 1978: Ayaginda Kundura
3. 1978: Toprağın Oğlu
4. 1979: Kara Yazma
5. 1979: Kara Çadırın Kızı
6. 1979: Fadile
7. 1980: Çile
8. 1980: Ayrilik Kolay Degil
9. 1981: Seni Yakacaklar
10. 1981: Yaşamak Bu Değil
11. 1981: Tovbe
12. 1982: Yalan
13. 1982: Alişan
14. 1982: Nasil Isyan Etmem
15. 1983: Yorgun
16. 1983: Günah
17. 1983: Futboliye
18. 1984: Yalnizim
19. 1984: Sevdalandim
20. 1984: Ayşem
21. 1985: Mavi Mavi
22. 1985: Sevmek
23. 1985: Yalnızım
24. 1986: Gülümse Biraz
25. 1986: Yıkılmışım Ben
26. 1986: Sarhoş
27. 1987: Gülüm Benim
28. 1987: Dertli Dertli
29. 1988: Hülya
30. 1988: Aşıksın
31. 1988: Bir Kulum İşte
32. 1988: Kara Zindan
33. 1988: Ben İnsan Değil Miyim
34. 1989: Ceylan
35. 1989: Fosforlu
36. 1992: Aşık Oldum
37. 1993: Tetikçi Kemal
38. 1997: Fırat (mini) TV Series
39. 2003: Hayat Bilgisi (Mini) TV Series

Director

1. 1982: Yalan
2. 1983: Yorgun
3. 1983: Günah
4. 1984: Ayşem
5. 1986: Sarhoş
6. 1986: Gülümse Biraz
7. 1986: Gülüm Benim
8. 1987: Dertli Dertli
9. 1988: Hülya
10. 1988: Aşıksın
11. 1997: Fırat (mini) TV Series

Writer

1. 1983: Günah

Producer

1. 1982: 'Yalan
2. 2009: Mikail Aliyev anadili Atlanta Georgia 1 yerde