He was born in Agri and immigrated to Ankara with his family in 1971. He started his professional music career in 1976 at TRT Ankara Radio. He started to be tried for communism propaganda and separatism charges because of his Kurdish love song "Ahmedo Roni", which he sang in 1979. While working as a sound artist, he was dismissed and incapacitated. after the September 12 coup and went abroad to