Ahmed Ratip Canga ( Istanbul , September 24, 1905 – Buenos Aires , December 13 , 1993 ) was a Turkish jazz guitarist of Yemeni origin.

At 19, his father sent him to study engineering in Chicago ; He started receiving Banjoclasses, although he soon switched to the electric guitar . Then, he returned to Turkey to do military service. In 1933 he moved to Uruguay . He formed a group called “Ahmed Ratip and his Cotton Pickers”, of which he was the director. Artistically he was known as Mike. He was one of the pioneers in Argentina in performing jazz.

In 1946 he incorporated Tito Alberti to his band, playing with a stable character in the Teatro Colón . Ahmed died on December 13, 1993 and is buried in the Chacarita Cemetery in Buenos Aires, in the pantheon of the Authors and Composers Union.