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Bosnian root music is a polyphonic, or more commonly heterophonic music, which is usually sung by two singers. The first singer starts the song, and after some number of syllables the other joins in. Intervals used in this type of singing are minor and major second, which is characteristic for most of the Bosnian and Herzegovinian music, and some parts of Croatia.
Edin Dervišhalidović (born 12 September 1962), known professionally as Dino Merlin, is a Bosnian singer-songwriter and record producer. [1] [2] Born in Sarajevo, he founded and led the band Merlin, one of the best-selling rock groups in Southeast Europe.
"Modern" folk was referred to as "novokomponovana narodna muzika" ("newly composed folk music") for a while, although the term went out of use in favor of simply "narodna" or "folk". It is based on various influences, sevdah stories with music of Serbia and/or Turkey often with incorporated elements of pop music .
In 1977, their private airplane crashed while they were on tour, killing two members, but they returned in 1991 with a revamped lineup that contained only three of the band’s original seven ...
At the band's 22nd birthday, old members of the band played with YU Grupa, and the band got a new member, guitarist Petar Jelić (Dragi and Žika's nephew). [10] The new lineup released album Rim 1994 (Rome 1994). [10] The album was recorded in Italy, and was produced by Dragi Jelić and Mario Zaninni Quirini. [10]
Polovina was born on 11 March 1927 in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.His father, Mušan Polovina, was an Austro-Hungarian soldier during World War I.During his service in Ljubljana, he met and married Ivanka Hlebec, making Himzo Polovina the child of an ethnically mixed marriage between a Bosniak father and a Slovene mother.
Plavi Orkestar (lit. ' Blue Orchestra ') is a pop rock band originally formed in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1982, and since 1998 based in Slovenia.Plavi Orkestar was one of the most popular acts of the 1980s Yugoslav rock scene and one of the best-selling acts of the Yugoslav popular music scene in general.
Južni Vetar (Serbian Cyrillic: Јужни Ветар, "South Wind") is a Bosnian-Serbian music band famous for recording with many famous folk, pop-folk and turbo-folk singers from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.