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He was born in Istanbul, in 1970. He has studied civil engineering and electronics in Bogazici University.
He started practicing music by playing the mandolin in primary school. As he met the electric guitar in high school years, he was involved into music with a serious concentration. He played concerts with the school band and participated in contests organized among high schools. He started to play his original compositions with his first band Exon, which was formed in the beginning of his university years. The band had the chance to record a song as the winner of a contest at 2 branches; "Best Hardrock Band" and "Best Heavymetal Band". The band transformed into a funk-rock band because of the changes in the line-up and was named as Blue Line.
After he graduated electronics school of Bogazici University, he started working in Spectrum Recording Studio as a sound engineer. He had the chance to develop his skills on different recording techniques and worked in productions of various albums as an engineer and a studio musician. Meanwhile, he joined the Turkish rock band Kesmeseker and recorded the album "ask ve para" in Bogazici University's Recording Studio. He left the band after the album and formed the most reputable cover band of Turkey; Indians, which they have played in top clubs for ime.
Setting up a home-studio, he continued his studies as a producer-arranger. In a short time, he had the chance to work with Turkey's top rock stars and became a well known producer and guitarist.
In summer of 2002, he released his first solo and Turkey's first instrumental rock album; "Sukut". After a short while, he joined the famous rock band Bulutsuzluk Ozlemi. He played many gigs around Turkey and Europe with the band and recorded a live album with a symphony orchestra named “Bulutsuzluk Senfoniâ€. Meanwhile with his album “Sukutâ€, he had positive feedback all around the world and was chosen as an undiscovered artist by the famous guitar site www.guitar9.com. In the first quarter of 2005, he left the band to record his 2. album “Mutlulugun Gozyaslari†and to concentrate on his solo projects. His new album was released on September, 2005.
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