14 Facts About Deniz Tek

Deniz Tek was born on November 10,1952 and is an American singer, guitarist and songwriter and a founding member of Australian rock group Radio Birdman.

Deniz Tek 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.

Deniz Tek 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.

Deniz 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Deniz Tek 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.

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

The remainder of 2011 saw Deniz Tek recording a new solo album and touring with Art and Steve Godoy as the Golden Breed.