Selma Naman

Selma Naman inspired by Ahmet Ertegun, who gave her a few pointers while in college, about the music business shortly after she moved to Beverly Hills, CA. with seven suitcases the day after her graduation from St. John’s University. She toured with Duran Duran and worked with Snopp Dogg and the LBC Crew. During her involvement in urban music, she met Ben Kaye, associate manager for Celine Dion. Shortly after Selma and Ben were engaged. She traveled with the Celine Dion Camp for a year while still producing concerts and promoting various artists she discovered. In the year 1999, She produced Mustapha Sandal a popular Turkish recording artist. She was the first to bring him to the States. She didn’t realize that her career in the music business would come to an end struck by tragedy. In the year 2000, Selma Naman volunteered her services overseas for the victims of the earthquake in Turkey. She aided and translated for the Egyptian physicians in Adapazarri, Turkey. “It was like the television series, M.A.S.H” Selma recalls. She met her husband, a physician whom she worked with. Shortly after she moved to Washington D.C to work for the Turkish Embassy, instead took up an offer by the Central Intelligence Agency. She trained in Fort Meade, Maryland for some time, learning sign language and working at a local Washington hotel at Galludate university with the assistance of her good friend, Luis. Selma was sent to Los Angeles, a city she thought she would never see again and moved back to Beverly Hills, Bel Aire, Westlake Village in the outskirts of Malibu. She decided to pursue a career in psychology and it is than she realized that she had to leave the agency in order to lead a normal life.