Akın, known by his stage name Mustafa Akın Dayındarlı, was born in Istanbul in 1968. The artist, who spent his early years in this city, completed his primary education at Halide Edib Adıvar Primary School in Ankara. Akın, who participated in the Petit École program of the French Consulate in the same period, continued his education in this direction until his university years.
After graduating from the economics department of Middle East Technical University, Akın went to New York, USA, for a master's degree and stayed there for five years. During this period, the artist also increased his interest in music and started to realize his first album projects in New York. He returned to Turkey in 1995 and started his professional music career and met the audience with his first album "Suskun Yüreğim".
Akın, one of the popular names of the nineties, became known for his hit songs such as "Rebeka" and shared the stage with singers such as Mirkelam and Serdar Ortaç during this period. The artist then went to Paris and worked on a new project with Sony Music, releasing three more albums one after the other in a short time. However, at the beginning of the new century, he decided to quit music and turned to other fields.
Akın, who started composing music for commercials since 2011, moved to Izmir in 2012 and supported his family's contracting business. The artist, who got married in the same year, later settled in Antalya and began to live her life with her family. Contrary to those who think that he has quit music completely, Akın states that he has not quit music, but wants to make a living in other ways.
"When our child was born, I put my interest in music on the back burner. I had to spend more time to provide for my family. Now we live happily at home with my wife and son. I haven't stopped making music, but I don't make money from it anymore," he says, explaining his choices in both his professional and private life.
