He was born on 20 December 1977 in Ankara, Turkey, to Ülkü (Yulku) Kabadayı and his wife Müjde.
Between 2001 and 2004, Kerem continued his study at the Department of History of Architecture, Urban and Contemporary Art of the Boğaziçi University.
After resigning from the job, he began teaching at the postgraduate program in History of Architecture at the Istanbul Technical University.
Kerem's first article was published in the Journal of Computer Technology "Amiga Dünyası" in 1992, but that same year the magazine shut down.
Kabadayı started playing drums in 1990, later taking lessons from the drummer of the Turkish rock band "Whisky Alpeya Assen SALT".