Ceza

Ceza, born Bilgin Ozcalkan, is one of the artists I most respect outside the Anglophone music world. His stage name means punishment in Turkish, and his rapid, rolling delivery in his native tongue is unmistakable once you have heard it. Making hip-hop land internationally in a language other than English is genuinely hard, and I admire that he turned the sound of Turkish itself into his weapon rather than chasing a borrowed style. As a rapper, singer, and songwriter who carried Istanbul's underground onto a bigger stage, he represents the kind of authentic regional voice that global music desperately needs.

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Name (English)

Ceza

Name (Japanese)

ジェザ

Reading

じぇざ

Born

December 31, 1976 (age 49)

Origin

Üsküdar, Istanbul Province, Turkey

Occupation

rapper / singer / songwriter / musician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Dragon

University

Istanbul University

• Official sitehttps://www.ceza.com.tr/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/cezagram/
• Xhttps://x.com/ceza_ed
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceza
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%82%B6
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q282782

Tags

• Istanbul Province
• rapper
• singer
• songwriter

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.