[1] He was born on 7 May 1953 in an adobe hut in the Turkmen village[2][3] of Fıstıközü in Halfeti district of Şanlıurfa Province, southeastern Turkey.
After discovered by chance that he was alive, he was treated and underwent cranioplasty, getting a metal plate implemented for skull repair.
[4] In 1980, Müslüm Gürses was on a concert tour in Malatya, where Muhterem Nur (1932–2020) already a well-known movie actress and singer, shared the stage with him.
From 1967 on, he performed live türkü, Turkish folk songs, regularly on Saturdays within the state-owned radio station of TRT Adana-Çukurova.
Müslüm Gürses stepped into Yeşilçam in the heyday of fanciful arabesque music, and starred in 38 movies singing songs in most of them.
He included pop and rock music to his repertory, singing such titles as "Olmadı Yar" of Nilüfer, "Paramparça" of Teoman and "İkimizin Yerine" of Tarkan.
He sang songs written by Mungan and composed by many foreign musicians, from David Bowie to Garbage, from Leonard Cohen to Bob Dylan, from Rainbow to Björk and Jane Birkin.
[6] After a memorial ceremony held at the Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall the next day and subsequent religious funeral in the Teşvikiye Mosque, he was buried at the Zincirlikuyu Cemetery.