Selami Şahin (TR)
From Türkiye
Popularity
Selami Şahin has one upcoming show in the Netherlands: on November 27, 2026 at Theater aan de Schie, Schiedam.
About
Selami Şahin has been writing and singing Turkish songs for decades, and plenty of them have travelled well beyond his own recordings. Artists from across Europe and the Middle East have performed his work in different languages. Because Egyptian Arabic is one of his two mother tongues, he has also teamed up on joint projects with names like Ghada Ragab and Enrico Macias. Over the years he has worked as a performer, composer and songwriter, and later moved into art direction and vocal coaching too. In 1980 he founded the production company Lider Müzik. For his 45th year in music, he reworked songs that other artists had already covered, giving them acoustic arrangements and new life on the album Mahzen. He has an acting side as well. He starred in Runaway Mummy, a Turkey and Egypt co production released in 22 countries, and the first Turkish film shown at the Hollywood Film Festival. In 2012 he sang his song Sensiz Olmuyor in a bank commercial.
