Well mine is short but messed up...at the age of 5 i had to speak 4 Languages and listen to 5 different
types of Music, reason: Turkish heritage, born in Yugoslavia (Macedonia), all Albanian neighboors,
at home we spoke Turkish, in school Macedonian and Serbian and outside with friends Albanian too.
Then i also lived in Turkey, Italy, Germany and now finally in the USA since 1997 when i came here.
I lost my parrents, both in the same day in a car accident when i was only 4, i stayed with my uncles.
Same goes with the Music, we listened to all, at the time they were very different not like right now.
I started playing Kawala (Flute) when i was 5, by accident, went with my grandma to an open
Fleat Market (Bazaar) and i saw the guy selling them and i started screaming i want one, she wouldnt
get one and i became more stubborn and crying and the guy let me play with one...once i started
playing (never touched one before) i gathered crowd around, it was just plain hearing, creating tunes,
it wasnt just awfull blowing...while the crowd gathered my grandma had no choice...she bought it.
Then i got sick everybody in the house, my uncle was a drummer...then i started bugging them more,
wanted a Gaida (BagPipe) and learnt that too...finally at the age of 11-12 i started playing parties on
a Clarinet and Sax while i had a Darbuka and Accordeon as Accompainment. Till the age of 16 i was
ok and then suddenly asked the Accordeon guy to let me screw around with his Accordeon and that
was it...my life changed again, next two weeks i was trying to convince my familly to buy me accordeon
which it didnt happen...had to learn on other peoples instruments that too and later on i went straight
to synths, abandoning the Accordeons all together...that was all till 1993 somewhere when i got into
Programming, everyone was just trying to play music and i was the only one screwing around with
the machines what can they possibly do at the time...and here i am at SZ today, still doing the same.

A little of my influence: ... at the time i was strictly playing our music till like i was 15 then i suddenly
started listening to Classic Rock, Oldies and some electronic, i liked Ofra Haza at the time too...
In the begining of 90es i got heavilly in love with Jean Michel Jarre (still today) and then the Techno
era started and i got carried with it...till late 90es when i got back to Rock and older stuff.
During mid 90es i produced, programmed, worked a lot of European TECHNO/DANCE/TRANCE
music (which i still do today) and also for a lot of Ethnic bands as Greeks, Turks, Arabs, Yugos,
Bulgarians, Caucasus, Indians and few others...but while doing all this i started slowing down on
laying live and less and less time for ACTUAL MUSIC PLAYING...untill recently, i started listening
and playing some BoogeyWoogey music....
I never took a single class for music in any instrument, all self taught...finished Sound Engineering
which in my opinion has nothing to do with music itself at all.

Thanks for your time reading this.