Bringing melodic R&B hooks and traditional Kurdish sounds into German hip-hop,
Fero47 built up a grass roots following through social media before he launched
himself and his new style of pop-influenced European rap with his hit single
'Jaja' in 2019.
Born to Kurdish parents who moved to Germany from Turkey, Ferhat Tuncel grew up
in the town of Bad Pyrmont in Hameln-Pyrmont, Lower Saxony and began posting his
raps to Facebook and sharing videos with friends on Instagram when he was 15. He
set his sights on becoming a banker and moved to Frankfurt in 2015, but
continued to ra...