I was born in 12th of March 1972 in Nicosia – Cyprus. I was brought up in my own country and graduated from Eastern Mediterranean University with a degree in Tourism and Hotel Management.
I already had very good musicians in my roots and it was very exciting to grow with harmonies and melodies.
I had my first experience in dancing and singing at the age of 15 when I was selected to be the lead singer for Turkish Maarif College orchestra. I have performed at the college for three years. During the time, I started writing songs and at the age of 17, I have recorded my first song and won an award in my country as best song of the month. I also became second best dancer when I was 17.Within the same year, I was selected Best Male Artist of the Year. Then I joined to the University and successfully completed my education with honours. Hence North Cyprus has been under the Embargoes for more than thirty two years, music has always been second priority for me. However, I have never given up music , because music is inside me deep down. During the University years, I have recorded many songs in Turkish.
I have released my first album in December 2003, and this was the first English album produced in Cyprus. While I was recording this album, Okan ERSAN was playing the guitars in my album and he has a great role helping me to make this dream into a reality.
Okan ERSAN then was working on his dream album To Whom It may Concern, and he released his first beautiful album in December 2004. His style is unique in Fusion Jazz and I have always admired him for his responsibility, discipline and passion.
Okan realized the importance of having somebody with him because his album started giving a lot of feedback and it was very hard for him to manage everything on his own. I have a lot of respect to him for choosing me as a manager. We have always been good friends and we shared a lot together. We trust and respect each other as business people and we started working as professionals. I have started getting in touch with promoters all over the world and it was not too difficult for me to make his recgnition worldwide because his work is unique and highly professional. The world wide Yamaha company signed a contract with Okan ERSAN in 2005 and Okan is only using Yamaha guitars. Okan travels abroad under Yamaha sponsorship and lectures guitar at the workshops.
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