Born: 10 / 11 / 1952
Location: Australia
Deniz Tek (born November 10, 1952) is a Turkish-American singer, guitarist and songwriter and a founding member of Australian rock group Radio Birdman. He has played in many of the underground rock bands of the 1970s, including Australian bands The Visitors and New Race, but is most known for exerting his burning Detroit-style guitar influence over the punk rock genre in Australia.
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Detroit is a welcome return from one of Australia’s great rock renaissance men – testament to the fact that you can’t keep a great man down.
“I didn’t know that so much of the album was going to be about Detroit when I starred recording it and started writing it, but after it was finished that was how it had turned out.”
"After Birdman broke up in 2007, I was looking for a new outlet and also going through a difficult time in my life, and that can aid the creative process a little bit, and I had been back to Detroit and visited and started writing, and those were the songs that came out over about a two-year period.”
He has a run of shows with Wollongong's Leadfinger planned over the next few weeks.