Haris Džinović

Haris Džinović (born 26 September 1951 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia) is a Bosnian folk singer, composer, musician and songwriter. He begun his music career in 1975 in his hometown Sarajevo as a singer and composer of folk music when pop and evergreen music were more dominant in the Balkans, 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 at 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 great success and almost every song became a hit. He has gained a large number of followers 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. At his performances he sings other performers' songs and does it in different foreign languages as well; 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 Romani 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 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 planed to start his international career. He lives and works in Paris and has opened a restaurant there, named "Haris". He made some new songs and in 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 began concert tours in the U.S., Australia, Canada and in almost every big city in Europe. Discography With Sar e Roma * Kao Cigani (Like Gypsies), Diskoton 1982. * Kiko, Kiko, Jugoton 1983. * Sar e Roma, Diskoton 1985. * The Best of Solo * Haris, Diskoton 1989. * (untitled), Diskoton 1991. * Jesu l' dunje procvale (Jugodisk Belgrade), 1996.[1] * Haris Džinović, Zepter Music/Grand production Belgrade, 2000. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.