Irakli Charkviani, sometimes known under his pseudonym Mepe, was a Georgian musician, poet and prose writer.
10 Facts About Irakli Charkviani
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Irakli Charkviani died because of heart problems at the age of 45.
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Irakli Charkviani was born into an elite family in Tbilisi, the capital of then-Soviet Georgia.
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Irakli Charkviani's great-grandfather was a prominent Georgian artist Mose Toidze.
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Irakli Charkviani graduated from the Department of Western European and American Literature, Tbilisi State University.
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Early in the 1990s, Irakli Charkviani emerged as one of the leading artists on Georgia's alternative and electronic scene.
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Irakli Charkviani composed music for the feature film "Orpheus's Death" in 1995 and went on to record his second album Ap'ren in 1997, followed by the single Sakartvelo in 1999 and the albums Amo and Savse in 2001 and 2004, respectively.
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Irakli Charkviani was found dead, reportedly of "heart problems", at his apartment in Tbilisi on 24 February 2006, leaving several unpublished songs which were subsequently released as the album Dzirs Mepe in 2007.
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In May 2013 Irakli Charkviani was posthumously awarded Georgia's Rustaveli Prize for "his significant contribution to the development of contemporary Georgian culture".
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On 19 November 2016 the memorial monument to Irakli Charkviani was unveiled in the central area of Tbilisi.