Inela Nogić became world-famous during the Siege of Sarajevo

Siege of Sarajevo

The Siege of Sarajevo is the longest siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare. Serb forces of the Republika Srpska and the Yugoslav People's Army besieged Sarajevo, the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, from 5 April 1992 to 29 February 1996 during the Bosnian War.After Bosnia...

 when she won the 1993 Miss Sarajevo beauty pageant, which was held in a basement in an effort to avoid the barrage of sniper

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 attacks from Serb militias. Nogić and the other contestants held up a banner that read "Don't let them kill us". The pageant was documented by an amateur filmmaker, whose footage director Bill Carter

Bill Carter

Bill Carter is a writer and director. He directed the documentary film Miss Sarajevo, which consists of amateur video material he shot during his stay in the besieged city of Sarajevo...

 then used in his documentary Miss Sarajevo. The documentary was broadcast internationally, provoking a viewer response that added to the international pressure to end the siege. Footage of the documentary was incorporated into the single "Miss Sarajevo

Miss Sarajevo

"Miss Sarajevo" is the only single from the 1995 album Original Soundtracks 1 by U2 and Brian Eno, under the pseudonym Passengers. Luciano Pavarotti makes a guest vocal appearance, singing the opera solo. It also appears on U2's compilation, The Best of 1990-2000, and was covered by George Michael...

" by the Irish band U2

U2

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 together with Brian Eno

Brian Eno

Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno or simply as Eno , is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.Eno studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex,...

 and the Italian opera singer Luciano Pavarotti

Luciano Pavarotti

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. Nogić also featured on the cover of the single, taken during the pageant.

After the war ended, Nogić was invited to the 1997 concert given by U2 in Sarajevo and personally escorted by the band.

See also

• Vedran Smailović
  Vedran Smailovic
  Vedran Smailović , known as the "Cellist of Sarajevo", is a musician from Bosnia and Herzegovina, and a former cellist in the Sarajevo String Quartet....
  
  , known as the "Cellist of Sarajevo"
• Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo
  Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo
  Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo was an international documentary about the deaths of Admira Ismić and Boško Brkić . The couple were natives of the former Yugoslavia, living in the city of Sarajevo...