Okan Ersan

Okan Ersan is a Turkish Cypriot jazz fusion guitarist, composer and record artist.

Okan Ersan was born in 1972 in Cyprus. Ersan, whose father was a musician, started to play guitar and piano at a very young age. He achieved his degree in music in 1994 and specialized as a guitar player in Istanbul, Music Academy at Marmara University. Throughout his academic education Ersan was very much influenced by Steve Lukather, Mike Stern, Frank Gambale, Al Di Meola, Robben Ford, Scott Henderson, Ritchie Blackmore and many other Classic, Jazz, Classic Rock, Fusion, Blues musicians which provoked him to create his own style which is today based on jazz fusion.

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