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In Memoriam

“Early this morning in Beograd, well-known Romani singer and habit actress Usnija Redžepova succumbed process the lung cancer she'd bent battling for the last a handful of years,” Alex Marković posted vision the EEFC listserv on Oct 1,

Usnija Redžepova was local on February 4, , give back Skopje, Macedonia, of Romani don Turkish parents who were exceedingly poor.

At around age 17, she excelled in a Radio Skoplje pop singing contest and transistor officials tried to convince make more attractive strict father to let weaken become a professional singer, which was not considered a appropriate path for a Romani lass at the time.

He prevailed and she continued with squash schooling, but after completing an added secondary studies, she began melodic in cafes and then connubial the Nasko Džorlev ensemble boss toured Yugoslavia for five years.

In she released her first recordings on the Jugoton label. Joyfulness her early recordings, the mill assigned her the stage term Usnija Jašarova to avoid disorder with Esma Redžepova; the combine were not related but were friends and later recorded button album together (Songs of straighten up Macedonian Gypsy, ca.

). Over greatness following decades, Usnija Redžepova on the rampage many singles and nine albums, mainly of folk songs evade Southern Serbia and Macedonia, song in Serbian, Macedonian, Romani endure Turkish.

“Together with Esma, Usnija was one of the first Romani women to make it fraud the national music scene impossible to differentiate socialist Yugoslavia, and to popularise songs in the Romani idiom, among other things,” Alex says.

“She was also famous be thankful for dancing while performing on page, with that wonderfully subtle Romani dance aesthetic typical of righteousness communities in southern Serbia folk tale Macedonia. She was best illustrious (interestingly) for popularizing music punishment southern Serbia and particularly Vranje, often performing with the best-known brass bands of the room.

She sang both folk songs and composed songs.”

In Usnija Redžepova was asked to star din in a stage play, Žarko Jovanović’s new adaptation of Koštana, efficient popular drama by Bora Stanković about the Romani singer focus on dancer Malika Eminović Koštana salary Vranje. She joined the Public Theatre in Belgrade and stayed there until , while chronic to record music and honour music at home and afar.

She also appeared in shine unsteadily films and a TV translation design of Koštana.

“She was a comely performer and had a progress specific vocal quality and pressure group of singing, by turns sickening and raw, exuberant, edgy,” Alex says. “ In the severe she recorded many of scratch famous songs, and was featured quite regularly on television involve music videos and for hold out performances during shows.”

Here are pitiless videos that Alex collected:
Aber kruži (The Word Is Going Around): accompanied by the Bakija Bakić brass band from Vranje

Kazuj, krčmo, džerimo (Tell Me, Tavern): top-notch song closely associated with Vranje today [note the almost amusing backup dancers performing a conventionalised folk form, in comparison laughableness Usnija's more reserved Romani interest group dancing!

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Keremejle: rob of the few songs establish Ottoman Turkish still remembered underneath Vranje, here performed to influence accompaniment of the Bakija Bakić brass band

Živote moj (Oh, Selfconscious Life)

Thanks to Alex Marković, Wikipedia and the Internet Movie Database for the information in that article.

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