Biography
He studied primary school at Adana Hayriye Kemal Kusun Primary School. He finished secondary school at Seyhan Secondary School in Adana. While studying at Adana Borsa High School, he gained his first musical experiences in the school choir. After graduation, he completed Çukurova University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Business Administration. He started singing in front of people for the first time in his music life, which he started as an amateur with his friends at school during his university years, as the soloist of the Tını band in Mersin.
While he was studying at Çukurova University in Adana in 1988, he started writing songs with the band TINI, which he founded with four friends to produce their own music and write their own songs. His first composition, Özdemir Asaf's Lavinya, became the second most requested song on a national radio after Ferdi Tayfur's "Emmoğlu" in the early days of private radios.
In 1990, he published his writings with his 13 amateur poet friends at the same university in an anthological format poetry book called İlk Rüzgâr. He graduated from Çukurova University, Faculty of Economics, Department of Business Administration in English in 1992. The TINI demo, which they recorded in memory of their 5-year sharing, was published by Ada Music under the name "Student Discount" in November 1993.