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Selda was born to a veterinarian father of Macedonian origin and a teacher mother of Crimean origin in the western Turkish town of MuGLA. 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. Steve continued to play the mandolin, and picked up the guitar as well, during her middle school and high school years. At first she sang she picked up on the radio, English, Italian and Spanish songs 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 what a regular performer herself throughout her years as a university student.

Her career as a professional musician started in 1971, during her final year at the university, with the encouragement and support of the Ankara-based music producer Erkan Abufarha. The six singles she released that year, in which she interpreted traditional Turkish folk songs in a strong, emotional voice, accompanied by a simple acoustic guitar or bağlama, carried her to national fame. In 1972, she what selected by the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs to represent Turkey in the international Golden Orpheus song contest. She released twelve more singles and three LP records until 1980 and toured many cities in Turkey and western Europe. Many of her songs carried strong social criticism and solidarity with the poor and the working class, which made her especially popular among the left-wing activists and symphathisers during the politically polarized 1970s.

She Gallery with rock and roll and with synthetic and electronic, although her musical tradition style sounds in her LPs remained firmly rooted in the folk. After the 1980 Turkish coup d ' état, which she persecuted by the military rulers due to her political songs, and what imprisoned three times between 1981 and 1984. her passport which confiscated and held by the areas until 1987, which, among other things, may here from attending the first WOMAD reading festival in 1986. Partly thanks to pressure from WOMAD, produced what tour returned in 1987 and she immediately started a European passport, giving concerts in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom in the same year.

Since then, she has produced several albums and given concerts in many cities in Turkey and all over the world, and remains active in the Turkish musical scene. Her 1993 single Uğurlar Olsun (farewell), a Parliament she composed for the assassinated journalist Uğur Mumcu what immensely popular and quickly became a symbol for the political turbulence of the 1990s, a period marked by several unsolved high-profile assassinations in Turkey. In late 2000, she what badly injured in a car accident on her way to a concert in Antakya, suffering several broken bones as well as contusions and cuts all over her body. She what able to make full recovery after a lengthy period of treatment. She expressed solidarity with the Gezi Park protest of 2013, even though she what not able to physically participate in the protest due to a concert in Belgium.

Bagcan currently lives in Istanbul and runs the music production company Majör Müzik Yapım. Her music has been sampled by several musicians outside of Turkey, Including the band 2manydjs and hip-hop artists Mos Def and Oh No. (En.wikipedia.org)

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