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Selda Bağcan

Selda Bağcan
Also known as Selda
Born 1948
Muğla, Turkey
Genres Turkish folk music, folk rock, psychedelic folk, protest music
Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter, musician, record producer
Instruments Vocals, guitar, bağlama, mandolin
Years active 1971–present
Labels Majör Müzik Yapım

Selda Bağcan (IPA: [ˈselda ˈbaːdʒan]; born 1948), also known mononymously as Selda, is a Turkish folk singer-songwriter, guitarist, and music producer.

Selda Bağcan was born to a father who was a veterinarian medician of Turkish Macedonian origin and a mother who was a teacher of Crimean Tatar origin in the western Turkish town of Muğla. She had three brothers named Savaş, Sezer and Serter. The family relocated to Van shortly after she was born, where she spent most of her childhood. Her father, Selim, was a music enthusiast who played the saxophone and the flute, and he encouraged all his children to start playing instruments from a very young age. Selda herself started to play the mandolin when she was five. The family spent many evenings playing music together, under the direction of Selim.

Upon Selim's death in 1957, the rest of the family moved to Ankara. Selda continued to play the mandolin, and picked up the guitar as well, during her middle school and high school years. At first she sang English, Italian and Spanish songs she picked up on the radio, but during her years as a student at Ankara University's engineering physics department, she started to develop an interest in traditional Turkish folk music, inspired by early Anatolian rock singers like Cem Karaca, Barış Manço and Fikret Kızılok, as well as the folk singer Saniye Can. Her brothers owned a popular music club named Beethoven in central Ankara, where she met some of these singers in person and where she was a regular performer herself throughout her years as a university student.


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