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BIOGRAPHY

Šaban Bajramović je najplodniji, najproslavljeniji, najznačajniji romski pevač, kopozitor i pesnik na prostorima Balkana. Medju hiljadama tekstova koji su širom sveta napisani o ovom autoru, nema ni jednog u kome pored njegovog imena ne stoji: «kralj ciganske muzike».

Šaban Bajramović is the most prolific and the most celebrated Roma singer, composer and poet in the Balkans. Among thousands of articles and studies written throughout the world about this author, there is not a single one which does not link his name with the expression

"The King of Roma music"

Šaban Bajramović was born on April 16, 1936 in Nis (Serbia). He almost did

not attend the school while picking up musical education, alike many of his people, on street.

U devetnaestoj godini je, zbog ljubavi, pobegao iz vojske, pa je kao dezerter, osudjen na tri godine zatvora na Golom otoku. Pošto je na Vojnom sudu izjavio da niko ne može da ga osudi onoliko koliko on može da izdrži, kazna mu je bila povećana na

pet i po godina.

Šaban Bajramović je rodjen 16.aprila 1936 u Nišu. Školu gotovo da i nije pohadjao a muzičko obrazovanje stekao je, kao i većina pripadnika njegovog naroda, na ulici.

When he was nineteen, he deserted the army because of love, and later was sentenced to three years imprisonment at the Goli Otok isolation facility on an island in the Adriatic sea. However, as he told the military court that there was no sentence long enough for him to serve it, the sentence was extended to five and a half years

Saban Bajramovic

However, while serving his sentence at the Goli Otok facility, Šaban Bajramović founded a prison band which played, among other music, jazz, Louis Armstrong and Frank Sinatra songs, as well as Spanish and Mexican melodies. Nowadays, he says that Goli Otok was his life-university, where he formed the way he thinks. He made his first record in 1964, and nowadays, his discography consists of some twenty albums and more then fifty singles. He wrote and composed, as he said, about seven hundred songs. For more than twenty years, he has led “Crna Mamba” (Black Mamba), touring half of the world with the band. Upon invitation of Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi, he visited India, where he was named for

THE King of the Gypsy World Music.

Na Golom otoku, Šaban Bajramović je, medjutim, osnovao zatvorski orkestar koji je, izmedju ostalog, svirao džez, Amstronga, Sinatru, španske i meksičke melodije. Danas on kaže da je Goli otok bio njegov životni univerzitet, na kome je formirao način na koji razmišlja. Prvu ploču je snimio 1964 godine a danas iza njega stoji oko dvadeset albuma i pedesetak singlova. Napisao je i komponovao je, kako kaže, oko sedam stotina pesama. Preko dvadeset godina je bio na čelu grupe “Crna Mamba” sa kojom je obišao pola sveta. Na poziv Nehrua i Indire Gandi bio je u Indiji, gde je proglašen

Kraljem svetske ciganske muzike.

THE King of the Gypsy World Music

is still on his official address in Nis, where he lives with his wife Milica. His children, however, are all over the world. And nowadays, that is, as he says, a sad inspiration for new melodies.

Kralj svetske ciganske muzike

ima zvanično adresu u Nišu, gde živi sa suprugom Milicom. Njegova deca, medjutim, rasuta su po svetu. Danas mu je to, kako kaže, tužna inspiracija za nove melodije.