Ground breaking for Serbia's, or rather former Yugoslavia's music, and neck-breaking for many a TV show or concert organiser, the late Šaban Bajramović. Get to know the man, his full persona, including imprisonments, gambling and his amazing musical career in this publication – unfortunately this article misses each first letter of his name ’Š’, so add it in your mind in front of each ‘aban’….
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/aug/15/serbia
To make Šaban's musical acquaintance at the same time, you could listen to the video below whilst reading:
Šaban has hugely influenced the development of Serbian popular music. A Romany, loved and respected by both Romany and non-Romany, he was crowned 'King of Gypsy Music' in India by Indira Ghandi in the late 1980s, when the work 'Gypsy' was not yet politically incorrect...
He composed and performed lots of Serbian songs, with lyrics and Serbian and Romany language back to back, thus influencing Serbian music slowly with Romany elements, which due to his huge popularity left large footprints on popular Serbian music of that time. Lets watch him live:
Time to travel to the Southern borders for today's Serbia, to a place with a high Romany population and great music, a music with much more Ottoman influence then in the rest of Serbia: Whilst travelling, lets listen to Đelem Đelem, the song considered as Romany Anthem:
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