 Vega was founded in 1996 by guitarist Tuğrul Akyüz, keyboardist Mert Koral and vocalist Deniz Özbey.Akyüz and Koral knew each other from their time at the ITU Electronic Engineering and were making music in English since 1992.Together with the Mimar Sinan University graduate, Deniz Özbey, they started to write their own songs, and the first piece, "Tamam Sustum", was noticed by NR1 Müzik's founder Murat Akad, who encouraged the group to keep working on new songs.