Selda Bağcan, born in Muğla, Turkey in 1948, is a well renowned Turkish folk music singer, composer and political activist. Coined as the “Edith Piaf of Turkey” by Antony Hegarty.
Selda started her musical career when she was a student at Ankara University, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Engineering Physics. Her first two singles had sold around one million and following this success she somehow had to choose music as a profession. She gave concerts in many countries including Germany, Netherlands, France, England, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, and Australia. Also attended to the Golden Orpheus 1972 representing Turkey with the request of Turkey Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She mainly performed on activities organized by left wing foundations and initiatives. In 1973, for the first time she toured the Western Europe.
After the 1980 Turkish coup d’état, her activities were limited by the military junta and she had been arrested and jailed three times between 1981 and 1984 for her political songs. She couldn’t attend to The WOMAD (Word of Music and Dance) Foundation Festival 1986, which was supported by Peter Gabriel, just because her passport had been seized. But the festival committee decided to add one of her songs to the official record of the festival. This record has helped her to receive many international invitations for festivals around the world. With the hard efforts of the WOMAD Foundation, the government returned Bağcan’s passport in 1987. In the same year, she attended Rotterdam Art Festival (June 13), WOMAD and Glastonbury Festival (June 19), Jubile Gardens (June 20), Eurls Court (June 25), Capital Radio Festival (June 26). After her Western Europe tour in 1988, she gave local public concerts during 1989 and 1990. These concerts were free and hundreds thousands of people were gathered.
In year 1990, she was invited to Netherland by Rasa Organization (Interkultureel Centrum) and gave public concerts in Utrech, Jmegen, Tilburg cities and later on in Prizren ve Pristina, Yugoslavia. She also traveled to Israel and Denmark for concerts and festivals, in the same year.
Selda lives in İstanbul and runs her own business under the name Majör Müzik Yapım (Majör Music Production)
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