BIOGRAPHY

Born on the November 30th 1980 in Edirne. Cem Adrian -the 2nd. child of a Yugoslavian origin family- had started his musical studies during secondary school terms and also released his first recordings. He started his carrier of radio publishing at age of 18 and continued about 6 years. At the same period of time he studied theatre and photography and recorded about 250 own songs at the studios of the radio he used to work. In the year 2003, he performed as the singer and dancer of the ethnic music band "Mystica" which he founded with Serkan and Efkan Erdal, in Istanbul. On autumn 2004, he started his education as a "special student" at Bilkent University Faculty of Music and Performing Arts, by the invitation of Fazil Say. On February, 2005 he released his first album "Ben Bu Sarkiyi Sana Yazdim".This album includes the songs which Adrian had recorded by himself between 1997-2003 in Edirne and the live recordings of his first academic performance with Fazil Say. This "demo-album" had achieved success by sales of 16.000 copies and despite being in the category of "alternative music" it took place at the upper lines of the pop-music lists. The concert series which started by the first "Babylon" concert in the year 2005 in Istanbul, continued by the premier of Hamburg Music Season with Fazil Say and by Bremen Jazz Festival, with Fazil Say and Burhan Ocal.

In 2006, he started working on his 2nd. album produced by himself and book "Ask Bu Gece Sehri Terk Etti" to be published on November 2006.