SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (RNS) — When Flory Jagoda, the superstar of Ladino music, died in 2021, it was a wakeup call for Vladimir Mickovic. Mickovic, a Bosnian musician from Mostar, realized that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "I am from Bosnia; take me to America." These stark opening lyrics, once a lament of disillusionment, have been transformed by the ...

Folk music lovers throughout the former Yugoslavia are mourning the death of Bosnian singer Halid Beslic, whose songs became standards at parties, weddings and taverns across the region. Halid Beslic.

SARAJEVO, June 20 (Reuters Life!) - British composer Nigel Osborne says the traditional Bosnian Oriental-rooted 'sevdah' music which inspired his new opera can offer Europe a key to a better ...

Thirty years have passed since Bosnian Army troops detained and assaulted Croat and Serb prisoners in a music school basement in Zenica. In the Hague Tribunal archives, BIRN found names of suspected ...

East Ethnia links to the London-based fans of traditional Bosnian music: “Turbo folk, in my opinion, has killed the real values of our region. One of those values is Sevdah music (in its original ...