ABOUT ME
Wut?

I was born in 82', August 18th in Ankara. Attended to regular schools and stuff. Have a degree on Accounting Information Systems from University of Bilkent, and the profession was, is and will probably be boring for me as ever, so I decided to follow an alternative career.

I was always into music, a side effect of being the son of two very talented people I have ever known, in means of every aspect of life. Had my first guitar, which was a broken classical thingy, at the age of 5. Lingered with it and with various other instruments on an amateur level till the age of 17. After that, I started playing drums and guitar in bands. Most important one was Dreamtone, which is now being acknowledged as Neverland (www.neverlandofficial.com) After some works with those instruments, I decided to work on vocals and became a singer, which turned out to be my main stage profession. I am now the singer of Neverland and it is a huge part of my life.

I have education over classical singing, composition and various instruments. Though I usually hate following scripted rules, especially the singing education was an essential part of my musical journey, which lasted for 5 years or so.

I started working on my compositions back in high school. Wrote many many songs. Some were terrible I guess, when I think of them now but mainly, it turned out to be my main profession as a music person. Singing is the thing that I seemd to be doing as a main profession on stage and at the studio but I see myself as a composer first. I have been composing for Neverland, Dreamtone and solely for fun for years now and decided to merge this passion of mine with computer games, since I am a gaming addict (actually I am playing CM2010 at the same time, while writing this bio). This was a passion of mine and I always wanted to write music for games. I finally had the courage and knowledge to do that, as well as the rig, and started working on projects.

Back in 2009, I started working on music soundtracks for mod communities and with some luck, I started to get involved in indie development projects within months. I am happy that people like what I am doing and I plan on to continue working with music soundtracks for the rest of my life.

I worked with various music magazines of Turkey in between 1999 and 2008, most important one for me as well as having a huge impact on my development in music and perspective was Zor Magazine. Great memories...

I also own a graphical design company with my Neverland mate Emrecan Sevdin and work on various design stuff, mostly with construction companies.

Near to these work-ish info, as a person, I am quite an easy to hang around character. People often say that I am funny and crazy. Crazy part as in being crazy it seems, which is kinda cool, gives you more room to express yourself hehe.

I am, as expressed before, a gaming addict and own a huge archive of games (over 2.000 titles) and increase the number weekly with new additions. Near to that, I am a HUGE sci-fi and fantasy fiction fan and I am a DIE HARD fan of Battlestar Galactica 2nd generation, from the very first day it was aired (2004 I guess). Near to that, I am a fairly good reader, reading lots of stuff and into Photoshop fun as well as chit chat over the net with friends.

I hope this about me thingy is useful for you as per request by friends and collaborators and visitors, I expanded the initial bio with some additional personal info. Enjoy =)

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