Grup Vitamin

A Turkish band founded by Gökhan Semiz.

Gökhan Semiz was born 12 Jan, 1969 in İstanbul.
He first fell in love with the music of Barış Manço (who also took role in his music video) and then karaoke his songs. Not too later, he tried to play the guitar and listened to Erkin Koray and Cem Karaca.

After all red heavy metal. The trip started with Metallica and Iron Maiden then became a Judas Priest and Dio fan. He founded a cover band named Blasphemous. They made their own songs (parodies) and played in Gulhane.
In college he choose to have a musical education.
He was writing some funny notes and adding in some lyrics. He shared this with his friends and tried to make a melody out of them.
He was playing the songs himself with an electric guitar.
At that time it all was just a hobby, but then things became serious and they made their first album Bol Vitamin.
In 1998 he died in a car accident that his friend was driving drunk.

The band chose oftenly to make parodies of popular Turkish/English songs (including "Can't Touch This" of MC Hammer and "Day-O" of BeetleJuice soundtrack) with funny lyrics. Some of their songs criticized the government using humor (like "Saskin Demokrat") while the others made fun of Turkish people who were in-between modernism and conservatism (like "Turkish Cowboys" and "Ellere Var Da Bize Yok Mu").