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Deniz Tek was born on 10 November, 1952 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S., is a Turkish-American singer (born 1952). Discover Deniz Tek's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 71 years old?

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Occupation Musician, composer, producer
Age 71 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 10 November, 1952
Birthday 10 November
Birthplace Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.
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1952

Deniz Tek (born November 10, 1952 ) is a Turkish-American singer, guitarist and songwriter and a founding member of Australian rock group Radio Birdman.

1967

He spent 1967 in Sydney with his family and was greatly attracted to the Australian landscape, moving there permanently in 1972 to commence his medical studies at University of New South Wales in Sydney.

Tek is a trained ER doctor and ex-navy flight surgeon who currently splits his time working in emergency departments in hospitals in New South Wales and Hawaii while still taking time to record and tour.

Tek was born to a Turkish father and an American mother and grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, a university town near Detroit where Tek was exposed to Motor City music icons such as MC5, The Stooges and The Rationals.

In the late '60s Ann Arbor became somewhat of a nexus for rock music, hosting festivals which drew performers from all around the world such as Pink Floyd, Janis Joplin, Johnny Winter, Captain Beefheart, and a personal favourite of Tek's, The Rolling Stones.

Headlining world acts such as The Rolling Stones aside, Tek was heavily influenced by the mushrooming local underground scene of Ann Arbor, which included bands such as The Frost, Mitch Ryder, Carnal Kitchen with Steve Mackay, The Up, The SRC plus jazz greats Pharoah Sanders, Sun Ra, Archie Shepp and Yusef Lateef.

1970

He has played in many of the underground rock bands of the 1970s, including Australian bands The Visitors and New Race, but is most known for exerting his burning Detroit-style guitar influence over the punk rock genre in Australia.

Tek has Turkish origins but was born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.

1971

In 1971 Tek left the rock metropolis of Ann Arbor to pursue his medical studies in Sydney.

1972

In late 1972 Tek had joined the band TV Jones as lead singer/guitarist along with Chris Jones on guitar, Gerry Jones on drums (brother of the now successful jazz trumpet player Vince Jones), Giles Vanderwerf on bass.

1974

TV Jones had a fanatical cult following in Wollongong, to the point where things got crazed and dangerous where by in 1974, the group fled north of the city.

The band was hopeful of success, but amid disastrous engagements at Chequers and the Whisky A Go Go, ran afoul of both the police and organised crime simultaneously.

After unsuccessful album recording sessions in North Sydney, the group began to disintegrate, sacking Tek from TV Jones as a negative influence.

After being dismissed from TV Jones, Tek proceeded to form a new band with longtime friend Rob Younger, with the addition of Chris Masuak, Warwick Gilbert, Pip Hoyle and Ron Keeley, and called themselves Radio Birdman, after a misheard Stooges lyric.

Radio Birdman were arguably the most successful band that Tek was associated with, despite the band's initial shunning from the Australian music scene.

The Radio Birdman sound was unconventional and raw and echoes the Motor City influences of Tek's youth.

Birdman are often attributed with the initiation of the Australian indie rock scene, as after being repeatedly rejected from various clubs and bars in the Sydney area, Birdman took it upon themselves to record and release their first recording Burn My Eye, and distribute it out the back of the band members' station wagons.

1977

Radio Birdman began a world tour in 1977 travelling to England and playing a few shows around London as well as recording their second album Living Eyes, until in 1978 the band broke up mid-tour due to "personality conflict".

Following the demise of Radio Birdman, Tek proceeded to experiment musically in several different bands.

1978

From 1978 to 1979 Deniz dabbled in a band called The Visitors with Deniz on guitar, Mark Sisto on vocals, Ron Keeley on drums, Pip Hoyle on keyboards and Steve Harris on bass.

The band being 3/5ths Birdman members was often compared to the early sound that Birdman had, but with a new twist of the Sisto vocal which likened the sound to that of The Doors.

During these years Tek had also committed to writing the songs for Angie Pepper's new band The Angie Pepper Band after the breakup of her more successful band The Passengers.

1981

What has often been hailed as the ultimate Motor City supergroup New Race, was formed by Tek with fellow Birdman members Rob Younger, and Warwick Gilbert, along with guitarist from The Stooges, Ron Asheton, and the drummer of MC5, Dennis Thompson, for a once off tour along the east coast of Australia in 1981.

The band performed to sold out shows and many bootleg recordings of the shows were made, which resulted in the formation of several bootleg releases.

1982

The only official live recording of the shows was released in 1982 by Birdman's Trafalgar Studios as The First and the Last.

Tek then moved back to America where he became a licensed physician, specialising his qualifications in emergency and aerospace medicine.

When in America he is based in Montana.

Tek's brother was a pilot of F-16s in the USAF.

Tek joined the US Navy as a flight surgeon, and trained as a pilot.

He then served with the US Marines, and flew back seat in F-4 Phantoms in the squadrons VMFA-212 and VMFA-232.

His callsign of "Iceman" was noticed by producers of the Top Gun film during a research visit to the squadron and may have been appropriated for Val Kilmer's character in the film.

1991

Encouraged by his friend and ex-Birdman compadre Chris Masuak, Deniz came back to Australia in 1991, intent on renewing himself musically.

1992

He began extensive touring in 1992 and, following a near career destroying disaster on the Take It To The Vertical tour of 1992 initiated a line-up that became known as The Deniz Tek Group.

This line-up spent the next few years touring Europe, Australia and the US, while releasing an EP and several albums (Outside, 444 The Number Of The Beat, La Bonne Route) Geographical difficulties became untenable in late '96 and the group split up.

Deniz then continued with US based lineups and recorded albums with Wayne Kramer (MC5, Dodge Main), skateboard stars Art and Steve Godoy (Golden Breed, The Last Of The Bad Men), a Montana-based trio (Equinox), an experimental electronic duo with Jimi Hendrix's sidekick and amplifier designer Dave Weyer (Glass Insects), east coast hard rockers (Deep Reduction and DR2 featuring Rob Younger), and live work including tours and live albums with the Rationals' Scott Morgan (Three Assassins, Powertrane) and surviving members of Sonic's Rendezvous Band (Getting There Is Half The Fun).

1996

Radio Birdman reformed in January 1996, with all original members, touring Australia extensively, including their headlining of the 1996 Big Day Out Tour.

Critics and fans old and new expressed the belief that they more than lived up to the legend.

2001

Deniz and wife Angie Pepper (Passengers) recorded her album Res Ipsa Loquitor in 2001.

Deniz continued to record and tour extensively in the late '90s, while Radio Birdman reunified and began to work again.