Ahmet Edip Akbayram was a Turkish rock music artist, composer and socialist. He was the lead singer of Dostlar, one of the first rock bands in Turkey. He was excluded throughout his childhood due to polio. During his artistic career, he was censored and oppressed because of his socialist stance. As a result of a disability in his right leg, he was rejected by some groups and organizers due to limited mobility. He reacted to this by saying: "I sing with my voice, I don't sing with my foot. Why are you looking at my feet, brother!" He was diagnosed with polio when he was nine months old. In the Siyah Örümcekler group they founded in high school, they played and sang psychedelic rock style compositions they made on the folk songs of Pir Sultan and Karacaoğlan. They made their first record Kendim Ettim Kendim Buldum during their high school years. The record was released in two different editions under the titles Siyah Örümcekler – Gaziantep Orkestrası and Edip Albayrak – Siyah Örümcekler. After Gaziantep, Adana became their second address where he first took the stage with the orchestra he founded. Later, he started working in a nightclub called Beyaz Saray there. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edip_Ak...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)
