Berke Hatipoğlu

Berke Hatipoğlu — Biography

Berke Hatipoğlu is one of the few people to carry architecture and music side by side, and on the Turkish rock scene he is known as the guitarist of Redd. He played guitar, sang backing vocals, wrote songs and worked on arrangements across the band's studio albums, and designed some of their covers himself. In September 2014 he parted ways with Redd, and the band split in two.

He took up guitar at 14, taught first by his father. He began a professional music career in Istanbul in 1994 and in 1995 was named best guitarist in a contest at the opening of the Tuyap music fair. In 1996 Güneş Duru and his brother İlke Hatipoğlu joined Ten, the band he founded with Doğan Duru, forming the core of what became Redd. In 1998 he played and arranged the album Günaydın Hüzün for Gökalp Baykal & Catwalk. Their first studio album 50-50 came out in 2005, followed by Kirli Suyunda Parıltılar, Plastik Çiçekler ve Böcek, Gecenin Fişi Yok, 21, the soundtrack album Prensesin Uykusu and Hayat Kaçık Bir Uykudur.

At Istanbul Technical University he first studied environmental engineering, then switched to architecture and graduated in 2001. An expert in 3D and digital architectural illustration, he taught at Maltepe University from 2003 to 2009 and has taught in the fine arts faculty at Doğuş University since 2008.