Dino Merlin
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Edin Dervišhalidović stage name Dino Merlin, dǐ̞ːnɔ̝ mě̞rli̞n, is a prominent Bosnian
Bosnians
Bosnians are people who reside in, or come from, Bosnia and Herzegovina. By the modern state definition a Bosnian can be anyone who holds citizenship of the state. This includes, but is not limited to, members of the constituent ethnic groups of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Bosniaks, Bosnian Serbs and...

 singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

 and musician. He is a popular singer/songwriter in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...

, and is also popular in the other countries of the former Yugoslavia
Former Yugoslavia
The former Yugoslavia is a term used to describe the present day states which succeeded the collapse of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia....

 such as Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

, Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

, Montenegro
Montenegro
Montenegro Montenegrin: Crna Gora Црна Гора , meaning "Black Mountain") is a country located in Southeastern Europe. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south-west and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast and Albania to the...

, Republic of Macedonia
Republic of Macedonia
Macedonia , officially the Republic of Macedonia , is a country located in the central Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991...

 and Slovenia
Slovenia
Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...

. He was born in Sarajevo
Sarajevo
Sarajevo |Bosnia]], surrounded by the Dinaric Alps and situated along the Miljacka River in the heart of Southeastern Europe and the Balkans....

, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...

.

Merlin Band

Edin Dervišhalidović founded the band Merlin in 1983 and has been its singer and songwriter since. With the band, he has recorded 5 studio albums: Kokuzna vremena
Kokuzna vremena
Kokuzna vremena is the first studio album released by the former Yugoslavia's Merlin band. The album was released in 1985.-Track listing:Music, lyrics, arranged by Dino Dervišhalidović.# "Kokuzna vremena"# "Ljubav nije paradajz"# "Jutro u Splitu"...

in 1985, Teško meni sa tobom (a još teže bez tebe)
Teško meni sa tobom (a još teže bez tebe)
Teško meni sa tobom is the second studio album released by the former Yugoslavia's Merlin band. The album was released in 1986.-Track listing:All songs by D...

in 1986, Merlin
Merlin (Merlin album)
Merlin is the third studio album released by the former Yugoslavia's Merlin band. The album was released in 1987.-Track listing:# "Sretna nova"# "Tebi je lako"# "Na te mislim dušo"# "Niko kao ja "# "Kad ti dođem nesrećo"...

in 1987, Nešto lijepo treba da se desi
Nešto lijepo treba da se desi
Nešto lijepo treba da se desi is the fourth studio album released by the former Yugoslavia's Merlin band. The album was released in 1989....

in 1989, and Peta strana svijeta
Peta strana svijeta
Peta strana svijeta is the fifth studio album released by the former Yugoslavia's Merlin band. The album was released in 1990.-Track listing:# "Harmonika"# "Šta ti značim ja"# "Palidrvce"# "I ovo prođe"...

in 1990.

Solo career

Dervišhalidović began his solo career under the name Dino Merlin in 1991, and recorded five studio albums: Moja bogda sna
Moja bogda sna
Moja bogda sna is the first solo album of the Bosnian singer Dino Merlin, after five Merlin band albums.-Track listing:#"Moja bogda sna"#"Prokletog me Bog stvorio"#"Šta će mi sad ljubav"#"Ti i ja "#"Ako me ikada sretneš"...

in 1993, Fotografija
Fotografija
Fotografija is the second solo album of the Bosnian singer Dino Merlin.-Track listing:#"Fotografija"#"Ja potpuno trijezan umirem"#"De facto Fato"#"Ne zovi me na grijeh"#"Nemam ja onih osamnaest godina"...

in 1995, Sredinom
Sredinom
Sredinom is the eight studio album of Bosnian musician Dino Merlin, third of him as a solo artist. It was released in 2000...

in 2000, Burek
Burek
Börek is a family of baked or fried filled pastries made of a thin flaky dough known as yufka . It can be filled with cheese, often feta, sirene or kaşar; minced meat, or vegetables...

in 2004, Ispočetka
Ispocetka
Ispočetka is the 10th studio album by Dino Merlin, and was released on 9 June 2008. The first single promoting the album, "Otrkit ću ti tajnu", was released in August 2007 as a free download in partnership with BH Telecom. He signed a contract with Croatia Records, MPBHRT and City Records...

in 2008 and 2 live albums, Vječna vatra in 1999 and Live Koševo 2004
Live Koševo 2004
Live Koševo 2004 is the second live album by Bosnian pop musician Dino Merlin released in 2005. The songs were recorded at his live concert from Koševo stadium in Sarajevo which was held on 31 July 2004...

in 2005.

Dino Merlin wrote the first national anthem
National anthem
A national anthem is a generally patriotic musical composition that evokes and eulogizes the history, traditions and struggles of its people, recognized either by a nation's government as the official national song, or by convention through use by the people.- History :Anthems rose to prominence...

 of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...

 called Jedna si, jedina
Jedna Si Jedina
"Jedna si jedina" was the national anthem of Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1998.The music was taken from the old Bosnian folk song "S one strane Plive" , and the lyrics were written by music star Edin Dervišhalidović. It was adopted in November 1992, several months after independence in...

. He has also taken part in Eurovision Song Contest
Eurovision Song Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition...

s, in Millstreet
Millstreet
Millstreet is a town in north County Cork, Ireland with a population of approximately 1,500. It is located at the foot of Clara Mountain. The town's Catholic church is dedicated to St. Patrick. Since October 1985, the town has been twinned with Pommerit-le-Vicomte in Brittany, France...

 in 1993 (Dino is the author of Sva bol svijeta
Sva Bol Svijeta
"Sva bol svijeta" was the Bosnia and Herzegovinian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1993, performed in Bosnian by Fazla....

) and in Jerusalem in 1999 (singing Putnici
Putnici
"Putnici" was the Bosnian and Herzegovinian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1999, performed in Bosnian and French by Dino and Béatrice....

with Béatrice
Béatrice Poulot
Béatrice Poulot , who performs as simply Béatrice, is a French singer. She was born in Réunion, an island in the Indian Ocean, and lives in Paris....

, a French singer). Dino Merlin has also taken part in other big European festivals, such as Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

 in 1996 and Turkovision in 1997. His tour promoting his Sredinom album, which was released in 2000, included over 200 concerts, with a spectacular performance at the Koševo Olympic Stadium in Sarajevo
Sarajevo
Sarajevo |Bosnia]], surrounded by the Dinaric Alps and situated along the Miljacka River in the heart of Southeastern Europe and the Balkans....

, in front of an audience of about 80,000. The Sredinom-album was the top-selling album in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...

 and sold in all of the countries that were once part of Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....

.

Dino Merlin's next album, Burek, was released in 2004. Three songs were featured as singles: Burek, Supermen and Ako Nastaviš Ovako. The album includes 15 tracks, many of which are new. The song Supermen is sung by Dino Merlin with a guest appearance by Željko Joksimović
Željko Joksimovic
Željko Joksimović or often credited Zeljko Joksimovic is a popular Serbian singer, songwriter and producer. He is also well known in Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia, Croatia, Slovenia, Greece, Germany, Austria and other European countries...

, who is also the composer of the song.

Many of the songs on this album have also appeared on his Live Koševo 2004
Live Koševo 2004
Live Koševo 2004 is the second live album by Bosnian pop musician Dino Merlin released in 2005. The songs were recorded at his live concert from Koševo stadium in Sarajevo which was held on 31 July 2004...

 album released in 2005. The other guest appearances on the Burek album include Nina Badrić
Nina Badric
Nina Badrić is a Croatian pop singer. Before starting her career in the entertainment industry she used to be a bank teller. She began performing in early 1990s, exploiting the sudden popularity of dance music, but her repertoire gradually became more mainstream...

 on "Ti si mene", Željko Joksimović
Željko Joksimovic
Željko Joksimović or often credited Zeljko Joksimovic is a popular Serbian singer, songwriter and producer. He is also well known in Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia, Croatia, Slovenia, Greece, Germany, Austria and other European countries...

 on "Supermen" Edo Zanki on "Verletzt" and many others.

Dino Merlin's tenth album titled Ispočetka (English Translation: From the Beginning) was released in 2008.

On 1 December 2010 it was revealed that Merlin will represent Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...

 in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011
Eurovision Song Contest 2011
The Eurovision Song Contest 2011 was the 56th annual Eurovision Song Contest and was won by Eldar & Nigar performing "Running Scared" for Azerbaijan. The event took place in the Esprit Arena in Düsseldorf, Germany, following Germany's win in the previous year...

 in Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

.
He came sixth in the final singing Love in Rewind
Love in Rewind
"Love in Rewind" is a song performed by Dino Merlin. It was Bosnia and Herzegovina entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 2011, performed in English.Author of the song, Dino Merlin, stated that the song is about the life story of middle aged people.-Charts:...

.

with Merlin band

  • Kokuzna vremena
    Kokuzna vremena
    Kokuzna vremena is the first studio album released by the former Yugoslavia's Merlin band. The album was released in 1985.-Track listing:Music, lyrics, arranged by Dino Dervišhalidović.# "Kokuzna vremena"# "Ljubav nije paradajz"# "Jutro u Splitu"...

    (1985)
  • Teško meni sa tobom (a još teže bez tebe)
    Teško meni sa tobom (a još teže bez tebe)
    Teško meni sa tobom is the second studio album released by the former Yugoslavia's Merlin band. The album was released in 1986.-Track listing:All songs by D...

    (1986)
  • Merlin
    Merlin (Merlin album)
    Merlin is the third studio album released by the former Yugoslavia's Merlin band. The album was released in 1987.-Track listing:# "Sretna nova"# "Tebi je lako"# "Na te mislim dušo"# "Niko kao ja "# "Kad ti dođem nesrećo"...

    (1987)
  • Nešto lijepo treba da se desi
    Nešto lijepo treba da se desi
    Nešto lijepo treba da se desi is the fourth studio album released by the former Yugoslavia's Merlin band. The album was released in 1989....

    (1989)
  • Peta strana svijeta
    Peta strana svijeta
    Peta strana svijeta is the fifth studio album released by the former Yugoslavia's Merlin band. The album was released in 1990.-Track listing:# "Harmonika"# "Šta ti značim ja"# "Palidrvce"# "I ovo prođe"...

    (1990)

Solo career

  • Moja bogda sna
    Moja bogda sna
    Moja bogda sna is the first solo album of the Bosnian singer Dino Merlin, after five Merlin band albums.-Track listing:#"Moja bogda sna"#"Prokletog me Bog stvorio"#"Šta će mi sad ljubav"#"Ti i ja "#"Ako me ikada sretneš"...

    (1993)
  • Fotografija
    Fotografija
    Fotografija is the second solo album of the Bosnian singer Dino Merlin.-Track listing:#"Fotografija"#"Ja potpuno trijezan umirem"#"De facto Fato"#"Ne zovi me na grijeh"#"Nemam ja onih osamnaest godina"...

    (1995)
  • Live: Vječna vatra
    Live: Vjecna vatra
    Live: Vječna vatra is the first live album by Dino Merlin, released in 1999.Originally released as a double album "Vječna vatra" contains all of Dino Merlin's best hit singles recorded live.- Disc 1 :...

    (1999)
  • Sredinom
    Sredinom
    Sredinom is the eight studio album of Bosnian musician Dino Merlin, third of him as a solo artist. It was released in 2000...

    (2000)
  • Burek
    Burek (album)
    Burek is the ninth studio album by Bosnian musician Dino Merlin, fourth of him as a solo artist. Burek was released in 2004. Three songs were featured as singles: "Burek", "Supermen" and "Ako Nastaviš Ovako". This album includes 15 tracks, many of which are new. The song "Supermen" is sung by Dino...

    (2004)
  • Live Koševo 2004
    Live Koševo 2004
    Live Koševo 2004 is the second live album by Bosnian pop musician Dino Merlin released in 2005. The songs were recorded at his live concert from Koševo stadium in Sarajevo which was held on 31 July 2004...

    (2005)
  • Ispočetka
    Ispocetka
    Ispočetka is the 10th studio album by Dino Merlin, and was released on 9 June 2008. The first single promoting the album, "Otrkit ću ti tajnu", was released in August 2007 as a free download in partnership with BH Telecom. He signed a contract with Croatia Records, MPBHRT and City Records...

    (2008)

Compilations

  • Merlin (1990) - with the Merlin band
  • Balade (1995) - with the Merlin band
  • Rest of the Best (1995) - with the Merlin band
  • Najljepše pjesme
    Najljepše pjesme
    Najljepše pjesme is a compilation album of Dino Merlin with the Merlin band as well. This compilation album was released in 1995.-Track listing:#Učini mi pravu stvar#Nešto lijepo treba da se desi#Moja bogda sna...

    (1995) - with the Merlin band
  • The Best of Dino Merlin
    The Best of Dino Merlin
    The Best of Dino Merlin is a greatest hits package by Bosnian singer Dino Merlin. Released in 2001 the album contains 18 hits. About two thirds of it is devoted to hits with the Merlin Band, but the other third is solo tracks....

    (2001)
  • The Platinum Collection (2006)
  • The Ultimate Collection (2009)

DVDs

  • Live Koševo
    Live Koševo
    Live Kosevo is a performance captured on DVD at the Kosevo Stadium in Sarajevo by Dino Merlin. The concert had many guest performances and part of it was even held in the rain.-Track listing:#Burek #Želja#Esma#Kokuzna vremena#Svila...

    (2005)
  • Koševo 19. Juli
    Dino Merlin Koševo 19. Juli
    Koševo 19. Juli is a DVD by Dino Merlin. It was released in January 2009. It has been recorded on July 19, on his concert in Sarajevo on stadium Koševo, promoting his tenth studio album Ispočetka.-Track listing:#Intro#Otkrit ću ti tajnu...

    (2009)

Singles

  • 2007: "Otkrit ću ti tajnu"
  • 2008: "Dabogda
    Dabogda
    Dabogda is a song written and produced by Edin Dervišhalidović, commonly known as Dino Merlin, and sung by himself and Hari Varešanović of Hari Mata Hari, from his album Ispočetka.- Video :...

    "
  • 2008: "Da šutiš (Indigo)"
  • 2008; "Deset Mlađa"
  • 2009: "Nedostaješ"
  • 2011: "Love in Rewind
    Love in Rewind
    "Love in Rewind" is a song performed by Dino Merlin. It was Bosnia and Herzegovina entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 2011, performed in English.Author of the song, Dino Merlin, stated that the song is about the life story of middle aged people.-Charts:...

    "

Songs produced by Dino Merlin

Year Song Performer Album
1989 Jablane Lepa Brena
Lepa Brena
Fahreta Jahić Živojinović is Yugoslavian pop-folk singer, better known as Lepa Brena , . Born in Tuzla and raised in Brčko, Bosnia and Herzegovina , she moved to Novi Sad in 1980 to pursue her career in singing. In 1982...

Cetiri godine
Četiri godine
Četiri godine is an album by Lepa Brena, released in 1989. It sold about 600,000 copies in former Yugoslavia. All of the songs became huge hits, but the song "Jugoslovenka" is until today a well-known song all over the Balkans...

1990 Sto Života Vesna Zmijanac
Vesna Zmijanac
Vesna Zmijanac is a Serbian folk singer.She released 13 albums, 6 singles and several compilations. Her singing career started back in 1979 with the single "Thank You for All", and after that came a few popular singles and first album in 1981...

Svatovi
1993 Sva bol svijeta Fazla Eurovosion 1993
1994 Beograd Ceca Fatalna ljubav
Fatalna ljubav
Fatalna ljubav is Ceca's seventh album. The album became the best-selling album of the year in Serbia.-Track listing:# Nije monotonija # Zlato srećan put # Znam...

2001 Predaleko Ivana Banfić
Ivana Banfic
Ivana Banfić is a Croatian dancer and pop singer. She became famous under the stage name I BEE in the 1990s during the period of popularity of dance music in Croatia....

Ona Zna
2001 Ja Nikad Neću Znati Ivana Banfić
Ivana Banfic
Ivana Banfić is a Croatian dancer and pop singer. She became famous under the stage name I BEE in the 1990s during the period of popularity of dance music in Croatia....

Ona Zna
2001 Sretan Ti Stoti Rođendan* Ivana Banfić
Ivana Banfic
Ivana Banfić is a Croatian dancer and pop singer. She became famous under the stage name I BEE in the 1990s during the period of popularity of dance music in Croatia....

Ona Zna
2002 Tačka Emina Jahović
Emina Jahovic
Emina Jahović Sandal , is a Serbian pop singer. She is married to singer Mustafa Sandal from Turkey, where she is known as Emina Sandal.- Biography :...

Tačka
2009 Zver Emina Jahović
Emina Jahovic
Emina Jahović Sandal , is a Serbian pop singer. She is married to singer Mustafa Sandal from Turkey, where she is known as Emina Sandal.- Biography :...

Vila
Vila (Emina Jahovic album)
-Track listing:...

2009 Sreća Hari Mata Hari
Hari Mata Hari
Hari Mata Hari is a popular music band from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Hari Mata Hari is the stage name for the singer Hajrudin "Hari" Varešanović. The group originated from the city of Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The group has performed over 1,000 concerts and sold 5,000,000...

Sreća
2009 U znaku djevice Hari Mata Hari
Hari Mata Hari
Hari Mata Hari is a popular music band from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Hari Mata Hari is the stage name for the singer Hajrudin "Hari" Varešanović. The group originated from the city of Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The group has performed over 1,000 concerts and sold 5,000,000...

Sreća
2010 Adı İntikamdı Mustafa Sandal
Mustafa Sandal
Mustafa Sandal, commonly known as Musti, is a famous Turkish pop singer. He is fluent in English, Turkish, Italian and French. He emerged in the early 1990s with the revival of Turkish pop music and is one of the most successful pop singers in Turkey with overall sales of 13 million copies...

Karizma

Sampled Song

Year Song Origina Year Artist Original Song
1989. Mjesečina 1988. UB40
UB40
UB40 are a British reggae/pop band formed in 1978 in Birmingham. The band has placed more than 50 singles in the UK Singles Chart, and has also achieved considerable international success. One of the world's best-selling music artists, UB40 have sold over 70 million records.Their hit singles...

Where Did I Go Wrong
1993. Ostat će istine dvije 1984. Prince
Prince
Prince is a general term for a ruler, monarch or member of a monarch's or former monarch's family, and is a hereditary title in the nobility of some European states. The feminine equivalent is a princess...

When Doves Cry
1995. Kad sve ovo bude juče 1995. Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...

They Don't Care About Us
1995. Paša moj solidni 1987. Luca Carboni
Luca Carboni
Luca Carboni is an Italian singer-songwriter. He debuted in 1981 as guitarist in the band Teobaldi Rock, publishing his first solo album in 1983. He always distinguished for his intimistic style.-Biography:Carboni was born in Bologna....

Farfallina
1995. Ne daj me nikome 1994. Marius Müller-Westernhagen
Marius Müller-Westernhagen
Marius Müller-Westernhagen is a German actor and musician.Possibly best known for the maudlin hit "Johnny Walker", Marius Müller Westernhagen has been a feature in German rock music since the mid seventies...

Es Geht Mir Gut
2000. Godinama 1989. Youssou N'Dour
Youssou N'Dour
Youssou N'Dour is a Senegalese singer, percussionist and occasional actor. In 2004, Rolling Stone described him as, in Senegal and much of Africa, "perhaps the most famous singer alive." He helped develop a style of popular music in Senegal, known in the Serer language as mbalax, a type of music...

My Daughter
2000. Kad si rekla da me voliš 1997. Tonic
Tonic (band)
Tonic is an American rock band that has earned two Grammy nominations to date. The band was formed in 1993 by Emerson Hart and Jeff Russo. Later members have included Dan Lavery, Kevin Shepard, and Dan Rothchild. Signed to a recording contract in 1995, the band released its debut album Lemon Parade...

If You Could Only See


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