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Münir Nurettin Selçuk was born in 1901 in Istanbul and died in the same city on 27th April 1981. Having received his early musical training in Darü'l-Feyz-i Musiki, an Ottoman musical society founded in the 1910s, Selçuk entered Darülelhan, the first national conservatory of Ottoman Turkey, where he became the student of Zekaizade Ahmed Efendi (Zekai Dede's son), who was one of the most prominent musical authorities of his time and who had an amazingly exrensive knowledge of the classical Ottoman music repertoire. In the following years of his early musical career he also joined the Sark Musikisi Cemiyeti, a...

Munir Bashir was born in Mosul, situated in northern Iraq. According to different references he was born between 1928 and 1930 and he died September 28, 1997. Munir Bashir was one of the most famous musicians in the Middle East during the 20th century and was considered to be the supreme master of the Arab maqamat scale system. In the long history of the oud / ud, Munir Bashir is one of the most important players. His style noticeably differs from other oud-players, for example from the urban “showmanship” in the “typical Egyptian” style of Farid El Atrache, or from...

Nurettin Colak, a rising star born on the 27th of April, 1991. At only the age of 18, has received support by the likes of Armin van Buuren, Tiesto and Above & Beyond. Not much to say, yet still a big future ahead of him. Nurettin has been around for a while and is respected for being one of the promising teenagers in the Trance music scene. After watching Tiesto's Dutch Dimension 2000 video with the influence of his uncle, Nurettin was blown away and the ongoing interest for music making took off from there. Going up the steps one...