Ozan Cemali was born in 1970 in Ankara, Turkey. He has been playing Baglama (long-necked Turkish folk instrument) since the age of 10. Nurtured by the love of music that comes from his family, Ozan has been singing, performing and improvising in varied cultural settings from traditional coffee houses (a significant component of becoming a troubadour in Turkey), to contemporary musical venues. At the age of seventeen he widened his musical repertoire to include the Oud. In addition to his skills in interpreting the corpus of traditional songs, he also has a growing songbook of his own compositions.