Background
He is a son of Turkish neo-classical music composer Münir Nurettin Selçuk and the elder brother of the jazz drummer and composer Selim Selçuk.
He is a son of Turkish neo-classical music composer Münir Nurettin Selçuk and the elder brother of the jazz drummer and composer Selim Selçuk.
He was educated in Galatasaray High School and Istanbul Municipal Conservatory.
His great-uncle was the Ottoman Grand Vizier Abdurrahman Nurettin Pasha. He started playing piano at the age of 5 and gave his first concert at age 7. Selçuk returned home after his study at the École Normale de Musique de Paris and became a pioneer of the political composers in Turkey.
With his chansons, he repeatedly stormed the hit lists.
He composed a great number of music to films and theater works, and also to the poems of Nâzım Hikmet. He twice participated in the Eurovision Song Contest.
In 1975, he conducted the first ever Turkish entry, "Seninle Bir Dakika", that had been composed and arranged by others 14 years later, in 1989, he returned as composer, lyricist, arranger and conductor for "Bana Bana", that was performed by the group Pan.
The song finished 21st.