Ercan Şahin Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

In 2006, he met the group Ufermann, and published his second album Selam with it.

In 1999 Ercan Şahin published his first album Gam Elinden. In the same year, he prepared his pupils for a big musical event. A total of 174 of his Baglama pupils took part in the musical event “Saga of Millenium” in the event centre of Cologne, KölnArena. More than thousand Bağlama players divided the stage of the KölnArena in this arrangement and were accompanied in their repertoire by the Cologne symphony orchestra, an arrangement which earned an entry in the Guinness book of records. In 2002, the same event took place in Istanbul, Turkey.

At the end of 1994, Ercan Şahin moved to Cologne and continued his musical career there. He worked as musician in the Arkadas theatre. Since 1995, he taught the Anatolian stringed instrument “Bağlama” and music theory, particularly for people from Turkey, at the art house “Mosaik” and in different municipal music schools in Germany.

Şahin taught in different “national education centres”, youth centres, foundations and private music schools “Bağlama”, in Bursa, Turkey. In 1987, he founded his first music group and took part in different concerts in Germany and Turkey, accompanied by many singers and musicians with his “Bağlama”.

Ercan Şahin (born 1971 in Turkey) is a Turkish folk musician.