22 Facts About Murat Boz

Murat Boz is a judge on the program O Ses Turkiye and was the winning judge on its first season.

Murat Boz was born on 7 March 1980 in Karadeniz Eregli, Zonguldak Province, Turkey, as the second child of Ayse Nedret and Cafer Boz.

Murat Boz played in ErdemirSpor Young Football Team for 2 years.

In 2000, Murat Boz started to make money and pursued his musical career at various music halls as a backing vocalist, and first became a vocalist for Emel Muftuoglu.

Murat Boz collaborated with Tarkan more than any of the other artists and vocalized in his songs for six years.

Murat Boz first entered the Turkish music scene in 2004, when he appeared in Nil Karaibrahimgil's music video "Bronzlasmak".

In 2007, Murat Boz won the "Best New Artist" Award at three different award ceremonies: Golden Butterfly Awards, Istanbul FM Golden Awards and Kral TV Video Music Awards.

In July 2008, Murat Boz's extended play, Ucurum, was released by Dokuz Sekiz Muzik.

Murat Boz first announced that his third studio album would be released in the summer of 2010.

In February 2013, Oguz Berkay Fidan released his first single "Olmuyor", featuring Murat Boz, which was a huge success in Turkey.

In July 2013, Murat Boz announced that he was working on his new album.

In January 2017, Murat Boz declared that he would vote "yes" on the Turkish constitutional referendum.

Later that year, Murat Boz was among the artists who were featured on Ozan Dogulu's album 130 BPM Forte and performed the song "Hey".

In 2019, Murat Boz starred in the comedy romantic movie Oldur Beni Sevgilim, opposite Seda Bakan.

An instrumentalist who plays piano, violin and ney, Murat Boz is a pop music singer.

Murat Boz believes that only singing a song while performing live on stage is not enough and admires the quality that American singer Madonna has shown in her shows and aims to gain the same level of quality in performance as her.

Murat Boz, who had been a backing vocalist for Tarkan early in his career, expressed his discomfort with the comparisons between Tarkan and himself.

The album received positive reviews from the critics who said that Murat Boz was in a "good orientation" as he was writing his songs with a theme "close to maturity".

Alongside working on his albums and singles, Murat Boz has participated and taken part in various other projects.

Murat Boz has been a judge on reality singing competition O Ses Turkiye for seven seasons.

In season one, four contestants from his group entered the final rounds, and Oguz Berkay Fidan, one of the remaining eight competitors, won the competition with the majority of votes, making Murat Boz the winning judge of the show's first season.

Murat Boz has appeared in numerous commercials for various companies.