Born on 19 December 1957, he began his musical life at an early age playing the mandolin and the violin. During his primary, middle and high school years he gave solo and chamber orchestra concerts in Ankara, Tekirdağ, Mersin and Samsun.
In the 1978–1979 academic year he graduated first in his class from the Music Education department of the Atatürk Faculty of Education at Marmara University. He had the opportunity to represent Turkey with his violin in the World Youth Orchestra.
In the 1982–1983 academic year he graduated from the Opera and Singing department of the State Conservatory of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. From 1983 he served as an opera singer with the Directorate of the Istanbul State Opera and Ballet.
In 1983–1991 and 2010–2015 he taught individual and classical singing in the Music department of Marmara University. From early 2002 to February 2003, and again from 2005 to 2007, he served as Protocol Director of the Istanbul State Opera and Ballet.
He has performed in children’s productions and in solo and chorus roles. As the Prince in Rossini’s Cinderella, a children’s and youth production he performed for 12 consecutive years, he set a record that will be hard to break. Murad IV, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Kiss Me, Kate, Mehmed II, Karanfil Köy, West Side Story and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves are among the operatic works in which he has performed.
He has represented Turkey with his voice in countries such as France, Denmark, Portugal and Germany.
For many years he has closely followed international research on how unborn children hear music in the womb and on the role of music in children’s mental development up to the end of adolescence. On this subject he gave a talk at the 2nd International Congress on Mother and Child Health, held on 4–6 June 2003, which was reported in the news pages of the newspaper Milliyet (Milliyet Pazar, 6 April 2003). He presented an expanded version of the same talk on 12 May 2004 as part of the postgraduate education programme of the Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University. He has also carried out specific work on music-based psychological therapy for adults, on vocal cord disorders and their treatment, and on helping people who use their voice professionally to work more effectively. This work was featured in the Saturday supplement of Milliyet on 4 October 2003.
On 18 March 2010 he performed on behalf of Turkey in From Sarıkamış to Çanakkale, written by Zihni Papakçı and staged jointly by Azerbaijan, Tunisia, Germany and Turkey at the Pafil Theatre.
Since April 2010 he has been a permanent jury member of the inter-school polyphonic choir competition launched by Doğa Schools.
In June 2012 he gave the first performance of Çanakkale Şehitleri’ne (To the Martyrs of Çanakkale), composed by Toroslu Belen. The proceeds from the recording are to support children with leukaemia and the rebuilding of teachers’ houses destroyed in the Van earthquake.
On 24 May 2013 he received a certificate of appreciation from Nişantaşı Nuri Akın Anatolian High School (Istanbul Governorship) for his contributions to the arts.
From June 2014 he wrote a column, including articles on the arts, for the online newspaper Bakırköy Gazete (www.bakirkoygazete.com).
Since July 2015 he has been a columnist for Seç Haber (www.sechaber.com.tr), part of Seç Medya ve İletişim Hizmetleri.
In early 2022 he retired from the Istanbul State Opera and Ballet (İDOB).
He continues his artistic activities with various institutions.