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Born in İstanbul, Turkey he started to play percussion at age 6
İn his early teens he started to develop interest in rock Music and picked up the drum set
and started to play in high school groups and amateur groups which won awards in national
competitions, Arif Mardin recommended him to study at Berklee College of Music, where he then studied arranging , composition and drums with great instructors Alan Dawson, Herb Pomeroy, Gary Burton, Michael Gibbs. İn NYC further studies at Julliard and NYU 
Musical associations with İsmet Sıral, “Creative Music Studio” in Woodstock, Nana Vasconcelos, Trilok Gurtu, Marilyn Crispell, Karl Berger, İngrid Sertso, Steve Gorn, Badal Roy, Bai Konte, Tom Cora, Aiyb Dieng and many others, performed in Woodstock and NYC area with various groups at clubs and venues including “Sounsdscape”, “ Circle in the Square” Drummer with“ Free funk avantgarde band” “ Creativity” led by the late guitarist Alfonia Timms, which performed in the NYC area 
Musical associations and performances in Turkey with Emin Fındıkoğlu, Onno Tunç,
Tuna Ötenel, Levent Altındağ , İmer Demirer, Mısırlı Ahmet and many others.
As a co founder of the group “ Ritmistanbul” participated in the “Percussion Panorama Festival” Percpan in Salvador Bahia, Brazil, and in the İstanbul Jazz Festival.
Recorded and performed several compositions for exhibitions in İstanbul

Jazz critic Hülya Tunçağ announced him as “one of the secret gems of Turkish jazz Music”