Meho Puzić (; 24 July 1937 – 25 June 2007) was a Bosnian

sevdalinka Sevdalinka (), also known as Sevdah music, is a traditional genre of folk music originating from Bosnia and Herzegovina. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sevdalinka is an integral part of the Bosniak culture, but is also spread across the ex-Yugoslavia ...

- folk singer and songwriter.

Early life

Meho Puzić was born on 24 July 1937 in the town of

Odžak Odžak ( sr-cyrl, Оџак) is a town and municipality located in Posavina Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is situated in the northern part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, near the river Sav ...

, into a

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family. He had two brothers named Adem and Bahrija. The latter was also a professional singer. Meho and Bahrija recorded two songs together, "Pjevaj brate" (''Sing, Brother'') and "Ko čaršijom konja jaše" (''Who is Riding a Horse Down the

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''), and released them on an

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titled ''Meho i Bahrija Puzić'' in 1974.

Career

He worked as a

bricklayer A bricklayer, which is related to but different from a mason, is a craftsman and tradesman who lays bricks to construct brickwork. The terms also refer to personnel who use blocks to construct blockwork walls and other forms of masonry ...

before becoming a professional singer and releasing his first single in 1966. In 1969,

Toma Zdravković Tomislav "Toma" Zdravković (; 20 November 1938 – 30 September 1991) was a Serbian pop-folk singer-songwriter and recording artist. Zdravković was an outstanding figure on the Serbian folk scene; a true bohemian and a poet, he lived up to h ...

wrote a song entitled ''Majko, majko'' (''Mother, Mother'') for him. Puzić sang the song in a duet with his wife Hanka.

Death

Meho Puzić died, holding his wife Hanka's hand, on 25 June 2007, a month shy of his 70th birthday. He died a little over two months before his colleague and friend

Safet Isović Safet Isović (; 20 October 1936 – 2 September 2007) was a Bosnian singer who performed the Bosnian traditional music sevdalinka. Early life and family Isović was born into a Bosniak family in Bileća, located in the Herzegovina region of mod ...

's death on 2 September 2007. Puzić was buried the day after his death in his hometown of Odžak. His funeral was attended by

Hanka Paldum Hanka Paldum (born 28 April 1956) is a Bosnian sevdalinka singer and founder of the record label Sarajevo Disk. She is regarded as one of the best female sevdah performers of the 20th century and is popular in her home country of Bosnia as well ...

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, Azemina Grbić,

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, Jasmin Muharemović, Husein Kurtagić (1938–2008) and Omer Pobrić (1945–2010), among others.

Discography

References

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