Berke Hatipoglu

Background

Berke Hatipoğlu was born on May 7, 1976 in Istanbul, Turkey. At the age of 14 he began to play guitar, initially being educated by his father, Haluk Hatipoğlu.

Career

After playing guitar during high school years, in 1994 he started a professional music career in Istanbul. In 1996, Güneş Duru and Ilke Hatipoğlu joined the Ten band founded by Berke Hatipoğlu and Doğan Duru. He performed in many concerts and festivals with Ten band from 1996 until 2002.

He spent the period between 2000 and 2004 writing and arranging songs along with Redd members and finally they released Redd"s first studio album, 50-50 in 2005.

Berke Hatipoğlu has performed as guitarist, back vocal, songwriter and arranger in all Redd albums. "50-50" (2005),,,,, a soundtrack album, Prensesin Uykusu (2010) and

Also, he designed the album cover for "Günaydın Hüzün" and some Redd albums like "Plastik Çiçek ve Böcek" and the Digital Video Disc of Redd"s acoustic concert, "Gecenin Fişi Yok" (2008). Berke Hatipoğlu studied environmental engineering at Istanbul Technical University from 1994 to 1997 but gave up this field and started to study architecture at Istanbul Technical University and graduated in 2001.

Also being an expert in 3D and digital architectural illustration, he held a teaching position in the faculty of architecture at Maltepe University in 2003 through 2009 and has taught in the faculty of fine arts at Doğuş University since 2008.

He has participated in several architectural projects, conferences and contests. Guitars Fender Custom Shop Telecaster "63 Relic Fender Telecaster Standard Gibson Les Paul Standard Gibson Exact Sciences 333 Martin Acoustic D1 Yamaha 12 String Edward&Jones Mandolin Eko Classic Guitar Framus Bass Amplifiers Marshall Bluesbreaker Reissue Marshall JCM800 Marshall JTM30 Pedals Fulltone Fulldrive 2 Fulltone Fat boost 2 İbanez Tube Screamer TS9 Electro Harmonix Pulsar Electro Harmonix MemoryMan Electro Harmonix Freeze Electro Harmonix Electric Mistress Electro Harmonix Holygrail Boss DD3 Boss TU2 Keeley Compressor Carl Martin Octa Switch ProcoRat Vintage ProcoRat Deuce Jim Dunlop CryBaby Wah.

Achievements

• In a music contest held during the opening ceremony of the Tuyap music fair in 1995, with Michael Doctorate"Angelo as jury member, he won the first place as the best guitarist.

Membership

Thus the core members of their band was formed, which was later renamed to Redd.