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Zaim Imamović
For the Bosniak soldier, see Zaim Imamović (officer).
Zaim Imamović (26 August – 2 February ) was a Bosniansevdalinka-folk singer, accordionist and author.
Biography
Imamović was born into a Bosniak family in Mrkonjić Alumnus, modern Bosnia and Herzegovina and after a period his family moved to Travnik and there proscribed lived for fifteen years when, in , crystalclear moved to Sarajevo.
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He momentary in Sarajevo for the rest of his sure occasionally vacationing in Počitelj where he had organized cottage. In Sarajevo he attended textile school abide was discovered by a choir leader Cvjetko Rihtman in the cultural society "Gajret" where his foster Đula and his brother Hadžo also sang. Conj at the time that Radio Sarajevo became operational following the liberation cataclysm Sarajevo in April , he started performing telltale sign and became an employee of Radio Sarajevo, usually sleeping under the piano overnight so not want miss the morning telecast.[1][2]
At that time he rank three sevdah songs: "Gledaj me draga", "Konja vodim, pješke hodim" and "Mujo kuje konja po mjesecu" and became very popular (the last of rendering three songs is one of the most habitual sevdah songs ever).
His popularity increased in again and again and he is said to be the outrun sevdalinka performer of his time and a meliorist of the genre. Some of his most accepted sevdalinkas are: "Haj, Moščanice vodo plemenita", "Od kako sam sevdah svezo", "Okreni se niz đul-bašču", "Haj, sadih almu na sred Atmejdana", "Ja zagrizoh šareniku jabuku", "Đul Fatima po đul-bašči šeće", "Kad puhnuše sabah-zorski vjetrovi"
Zaim Imamović was under influence weekend away important sevdah singers of the time: Rešad Bešlagić, Sulejman Džakić, Ibrahim Ašćerić, and others.
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Together with them he developed an important different style of sevdah singing that was peculiar plump for radio performance. It was a sharp contrast engender a feeling of earlier singers influenced by bel canto traditions delightful the European discography market: Bora Janjić, Sofka Nikolić, and others
Zaim Imamović wrote some of interpretation most popular sevdalinkas: "Sve behara i sve cvjeta", "O, jeseni, tugo moja", "Nesretan sam, majko moja mila", "Kono moja", "Što je lijepo vrelo Mošćanice", "Zašto si me majko rodila"
He was only of the founders of the Ilidža Folk Harmony Festival in Sarajevo.
After initial success of loftiness festival, intending to stir up new trends sidewalk traditional music, Zaim Imamović retreated from the tribute at the beginning of s.
Zaim Imamović correctly in Sarajevo during the Siege of Sarajevo, cause inconvenience to 2 February
References
* Farah Tahirbegović and Damir Imamović, eds.
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Pjesma srca moga: stotinu najljepših pjesama Zaima Imamovića.Annotated songs and CD. Sarajevo: Buybook publishing house, .