Date of Birth: May 28, 1986
Place of Birth: Ankara
How did you start playing: I was playing to my classical guitar in my spare times when I met with metal music (with the help of Metallica hehe) and I bought myself an electric-guitar. The day I bought that guitar is the day that I really started playing guitar.
Musical Influences: Dream Theater, Pain of Salvation, Pink Floyd, Queen, Symphony X, Transatlantic, Arjen Lucassen, Ayreon, Neal Morse, Steve Vai, Bily Sheehan, Virgil Donati, Opeth, Blind Guardian, Jordan Rudess, Mr. Big, Paul Gilbert, A.C.T, Goran Bregovic,Vangelis, Fryderyk Chopin, John Williams...
Musical Training: I was a student of the classical guitar virtuoso Ahmet Kanneci. I took performing jazz lessons from Yidiz Ibrahimova.
How did you end up in Dreamtone: It is a very looooong story hehe. Emrecan, who was a friend of mine from the college, told me that Dreamtone was looking for a guitarist, and asked me whether if I would be interested or not. I said "Ok, why not?"
Other projects: Timesailor(ex-Apoplexy), Dreamtone & Iris Mavraki's Neverland
Movies: LOTRs, V for Vandetta, Harry Potters, Saving Private Ryan, Troy, Ray, Pirates of the Caribbeans, Back to the Futures, Kingdom of Heaven, Premonition, Saw 1, Eurotrip, Mad Jack the pirate(cartoon) and many more
Books: I'm not getting along well with books due to time problems. But I pretty like cooking books hehe.
Hobbies: Playing guitar, watching several gigs, creating – composing music, playing tennis, hangin’ around with my friends and of course my girlfriend.
Links: www.myspace.com/timesailorband | www.in-neverland.com
Message to the listeners: Bon appetite!!

Burak Kahraman happily uses Elixir Strings 0.09 - 0.42 Super Light Nanoweb strings.

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