Haris Džinovic
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Haris Džinović is a popular Bosnian
folk
singer. He is also a composer
, a musician and songwriter for his songs.
, as a singer and composer of folk music
when pop
and evergreen
music were more dominant in the Balkans
area, so he preferred to compose for other performers. Soon, fascinated by the Roma music, he founded the band "Sar e Roma" in 1981, with a famous group of Roma musicians. They played numerous concerts throughout the world. Together with them, Haris Džinović recorded three albums between 1982–1986, which have been published as a CD compilation many years after their team-work.
In 1989, he started again with folk music and made of specific sound and style for his songs, which became new urban songs accompanied with some kind of ethno sound. With his first album, Haris already had a great success and almost every song became a great hit. Through all these years those hits are on the very top of the music charts. He has received a great number of audience and music experts' awards for this.
Encouraged with this success, in 1991 he recorded the second album, published for the same record company as the first album – "Diskoton
", Sarajevo. Just at the moment when the songs from it fascinated the audience again, Bosnian war
commenced at the Balkans area. Haris retreated to Austria
and played many benefit concerts for his compatriots from Bosnia. Finally, in the 1994 he went to France
, living in Cannes
and Saint-Tropez
and Spain
for a while, and ultimately moving to Paris
in 1997, where he has been living since. Thanks to singing folk music and traveling all over the world he had learned several languages. At his performances he sings other performers' songs and does it in different foreign languages; English
, Spanish
, French
, Russian
, Greek
,... and also plays many music instruments.
While in Cannes
, he got a proposal to make and sing the gipsy version of the famous song My Way
, composed many years ago by Claude François
, so unforgettably performed by Frank Sinatra
. He took their offer and "Warner Chappell Music" company published it in the 1994, for the occasion of the 25th year anniversary since the song has been first performed. On that CD, his version "Cantar Cigan" has found its place between 25 other versions of the same song. During his stay in Spain, in the music studio of Kornelije Kovač
, he started to work on new songs, recording them in Spanish
, English
and Roma language, for his international career. At the same time, he made many different versions of his old hits. Then appears a song Jesu l' dunje procvale? (Did the Quinces Bloom?) which would has found its place on his album published in the 1996 with other Gipsy songs and his old - new version songs. At the same time he was cooperating with the famous band Gipsy Kings
.
After that Haris plans to start his international career, he lives and works in Paris
, opens a restaurant there, named "Haris". At that period he made some new songs and in the 2000, he published his new album, by the "Zepter World Music International" company. For that album, almost all lyrics and music were entirely his work. He closed the restaurant and turned all his forces to the music career. He begins concerts tours in the U.S.
, Australia
, Canada
and in almost every big city in Europe
.
Officiality and copyright status of this album is uncertain.
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This text was originally published at Džinović's official web site
This text copied here with permissions of his web site owner.
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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...
folk
Folk music
Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....
singer. He is also a composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
, a musician and songwriter for his songs.
Career
He began his music career in 1975 in his hometown SarajevoSarajevo
Sarajevo |Bosnia]], surrounded by the Dinaric Alps and situated along the Miljacka River in the heart of Southeastern Europe and the Balkans....
, as a singer and composer of folk music
Folk music
Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....
when pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
and evergreen
Oldies
Oldies is a term commonly used to describe a radio format that concentrates on music from a period of about 15 to 55 years before the present day....
music were more dominant in the Balkans
Balkans
The Balkans is a geopolitical and cultural region of southeastern Europe...
area, so he preferred to compose for other performers. Soon, fascinated by the Roma music, he founded the band "Sar e Roma" in 1981, with a famous group of Roma musicians. They played numerous concerts throughout the world. Together with them, Haris Džinović recorded three albums between 1982–1986, which have been published as a CD compilation many years after their team-work.
In 1989, he started again with folk music and made of specific sound and style for his songs, which became new urban songs accompanied with some kind of ethno sound. With his first album, Haris already had a great success and almost every song became a great hit. Through all these years those hits are on the very top of the music charts. He has received a great number of audience and music experts' awards for this.
Encouraged with this success, in 1991 he recorded the second album, published for the same record company as the first album – "Diskoton
Diskoton
Diskoton was a major record label based in Sarajevo, Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the former Yugoslavia. It should not be confused with another former Yugoslav record company with a similar name called Diskos....
", Sarajevo. Just at the moment when the songs from it fascinated the audience again, Bosnian war
Bosnian War
The Bosnian War or the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between April 1992 and December 1995. The war involved several sides...
commenced at the Balkans area. Haris retreated to Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
and played many benefit concerts for his compatriots from Bosnia. Finally, in the 1994 he went to France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, living in Cannes
Cannes
Cannes is one of the best-known cities of the French Riviera, a busy tourist destination and host of the annual Cannes Film Festival. It is a Commune of France in the Alpes-Maritimes department....
and Saint-Tropez
Saint-Tropez
Saint-Tropez is a town, 104 km to the east of Marseille, in the Var department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of southeastern France. It is also the principal town in the canton of Saint-Tropez....
and Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
for a while, and ultimately moving to Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
in 1997, where he has been living since. Thanks to singing folk music and traveling all over the world he had learned several languages. At his performances he sings other performers' songs and does it in different foreign languages; English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
, French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
, Russian
Russian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
, Greek
Greek language
Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...
,... and also plays many music instruments.
While in Cannes
Cannes
Cannes is one of the best-known cities of the French Riviera, a busy tourist destination and host of the annual Cannes Film Festival. It is a Commune of France in the Alpes-Maritimes department....
, he got a proposal to make and sing the gipsy version of the famous song My Way
My Way (song)
"My Way" is a song popularized by Frank Sinatra. Its lyrics were written by Paul Anka and set to music based on the French song "Comme d'habitude" composed in 1967 by Claude François and Jacques Revaux, with lyrics by Claude François and Gilles Thibault. Anka's English lyrics are unrelated to the...
, composed many years ago by Claude François
Claude François
Claude François was a French pop singer, songwriter and dancer. He wrote "Comme d'habitude," the original version of "My Way."-Early life:...
, so unforgettably performed by Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...
. He took their offer and "Warner Chappell Music" company published it in the 1994, for the occasion of the 25th year anniversary since the song has been first performed. On that CD, his version "Cantar Cigan" has found its place between 25 other versions of the same song. During his stay in Spain, in the music studio of Kornelije Kovač
Kornelije Kovac
Kornelije "Bata" Kovač is a famous Serbian composer. He is a father of Aleksandra Kovač and Kristina Kovač, both successful Serbian singers.-Early life:...
, he started to work on new songs, recording them in Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
, English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
and Roma language, for his international career. At the same time, he made many different versions of his old hits. Then appears a song Jesu l' dunje procvale? (Did the Quinces Bloom?) which would has found its place on his album published in the 1996 with other Gipsy songs and his old - new version songs. At the same time he was cooperating with the famous band Gipsy Kings
Gipsy Kings
The Gipsy Kings are a group of musicians from Arles and Montpellier, who perform in Spanish with an Andalucían accent. Although group members were born in France, their parents were mostly gitanos, Spanish Romani people who fled Catalonia during the 1930s Spanish Civil War. Chico Bouchikhi is of...
.
After that Haris plans to start his international career, he lives and works in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, opens a restaurant there, named "Haris". At that period he made some new songs and in the 2000, he published his new album, by the "Zepter World Music International" company. For that album, almost all lyrics and music were entirely his work. He closed the restaurant and turned all his forces to the music career. He begins concerts tours in the U.S.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
and in almost every big city in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
.
With Sar e Roma
- Kao Cigani (Like Gypsies), DiskotonDiskotonDiskoton was a major record label based in Sarajevo, Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the former Yugoslavia. It should not be confused with another former Yugoslav record company with a similar name called Diskos....
1982. - Kiko, Kiko, JugotonJugotonJugoton was the largest record label and chain record store in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia based in Zagreb, Socialist Republic of Croatia. After the breakup of Yugoslavia the company continued to work in independent Republic of Croatia under the name Croatia...
1983. - Sar e Roma, Diskoton 1985.
- The Best of
Solo
- Haris, Diskoton 1989.
- (untitled), Diskoton 1991.
- Jesu l' dunje procvale (Did the Quinces Bloom) (Jugodisk Belgrade), 1996.
- Haris Džinović, Zepter Music/Grand production Belgrade, 2000.
Officiality and copyright status of this album is uncertain.
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This text was originally published at Džinović's official web site
This text copied here with permissions of his web site owner.
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