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The Ertegun family in 1942. Ahmet Ertegün's great-grandfather, İbrahim Edhem Efendi, was the last sheikh of the Üsküdar Özbekler Tekkesi.He was the second son of Turkish ambassador Münir Ertegün and Hayrünnisa Rüstem.
She met her second husband, Atlantic Records cofounder Ahmet Ertegun, in the late 1950s and married him in 1961. With her friend Chessy Rayner, Ertegun founded the interior design firm MAC II in 1967.
Born in Istanbul in the Ottoman Empire, Nesuhi and his family, including his younger brother Ahmet, moved to Washington, D.C., in 1935 with their father Munir Ertegun, who was appointed the Turkish Ambassador to the United States that year. From an early age, Nesuhi's primary musical interest was jazz. He had attended concerts in Europe before ...
Ertegun was born in Romania in 1926, but was forced to flee the country due to political turmoil unleashed by WWII. She met her second husband, Atlantic Records co-founder Ahmet Ertegun in the ...
Ertegun claimed his inspiration for writing "Mess Around" was stride pianist Pete Johnson. [citation needed] Earlier versions of the tune's New Orleans boogie piano riff can be heard in songs from the early 1930s and 1940s, with perhaps the earliest example being Charles "Cow Cow" Davenport's "Cow Cow Blues" from 1928.
Münir Ertegün, Turkish politician and diplomat and father of Ahmet and Nesuhi Ertegün This page was last edited on 22 December 2016, at 12:14 (UTC) ...
Ertegun and Wexler were recording R&B hits which crossed over into pop. His failing marriage to Miriam would end in divorce. [3] Abramson returned home from Germany with a pregnant girlfriend who became his second wife. [4] Ahmet Ertegun and Abramson formed Atco Records in 1955 as a division of Atlantic. Abramson ran the label on his own.
Jan Roeg says late music executive Ahmet Ertegun sexually assaulted her several times starting in the 1980s and alleges Atlantic Records covered it up. Nearly 16 years after his death, Atlantic ...