Barış Manço: First "Peace" of Türkiye
Barış Manço, artist, musician, singer, composer, actor, producer, show host... We know him in many different jobs. But do we know his life? His family, music life, full name and more... Before Barış Manço's birth, let's talk about his grandparents. After Mehmet II's conquer of Istanbul, Mançozade Family moved to Thessaloniki from Konya . They lived there until WWI, then moved to Istanbul again due to the hardships of war. Many years later, they changed their surname after the surname law came into force. Barış Manço was born in Istanbul on January 2nd, 1943 as Hakkı Manço and Rikkat Uyanık's second child with the full name; Tosun Yusuf Mehmet Barış Manço. Barış Manço says that his name which means "peace" was given to him because of his parents' wanting the war to end. Barış Manço is also the first person to have this name in Türkiye. Mrs Rikkat and Mr Hakkı -were Turkish Classical Music artists-, separated when he was 3 years old. Barış Manço grew up w...