Enes Begović (born 6 June 1965) is a Bosnian
pop-folk singer and producer.
Early life
Enes Begović was born on 6 June 1965 in
Visoko
Visoko ( sr-cyrl, Високо, ) is a city located in the Zenica-Doboj Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013, the municipality had a population of 39,938 inhabitants with 11,205 livi ...
,
SR Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Socijalistička Republika Bosna i Hercegovina, Социјалистичка Pепублика Босна и Херцеговина), commonly referred to as Socia ...
. While attending a Visoko high school in 1978, Begović passed an audition as a solo vocalist, an event that inspired his interest in music.
Career
Begović entered the professional music world in 1985, releasing his first studio album ''Još samo jednom sjeti se'' that same year under the label
Diskoton. His second studio album ''Šta bih ja bez tebe'' (1987) featured the hit song "Siroče" (''Orphan''). 1990 saw Begović move from Diskoton to the label
Jugodisk for his third studio album ''Bosanac''. The album and the song of the same name became huge successes, with the album selling at least 500,000 copies.
Begović won the 2008
Ilidža music festival with the song "Duša Sarajeva" (''The Soul of Sarajevo''), written by Dragan Stojković Bosanac. Begović recorded the pop-rock duet "Dva jarana" with
Mladen Vojičić Tifa in March 2011. The song was written by Bosnian-German songwriter Amir Jesenković. "Dva jarana" was originally intended to be recorded with
Nihad Alibegović.
On 26 November 2011, a 25th Anniversary concert was held at Sarajevo's
Mirza Delibašić Hall to mark the 25th year of Begović's professional career.
His 2016
Australia
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n tour kicked off with a concert in
Perth
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on 4 March 2016. Begović performed for the
Bosnian diaspora in
Sydney
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,
Brisbane
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,
Adelaide
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, and finished the tour with two concerts in
Melbourne
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on 18 and 19 March.
Discography
*''Još samo jednom sjeti se'' (1985)
*''Šta bih ja bez tebe'' (1987)
*''Bosanac'' (1990)
*''Noćima nema kraja'' (1991)
*''Noćna ptica'' (1993)
*''Noći pune ljubavi'' (1995)
*''Od života uzmi sve'' (1997)
*''Oprosti joj, bože'' (1999)
*''Samo jednom se živi'' (2001)
*''Da se napijem'' (2002)
*''Tako te volim'' (2004)
*''Oči boje badema'' (2006)
*''Za ljubav'' (2008)
*''Lijepa je'' (2011)
*''19'' (2019)
See also
*
List of Bosnia and Herzegovina patriotic songs
References
External links
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1965 births
Living people
People from Visoko
20th-century Bosnia and Herzegovina male singers
Yugoslav male singers
Bosnia and Herzegovina folk-pop singers
Grand Production artists
Hayat Production artists
Bosniaks of Bosnia and Herzegovina
21st-century Bosnia and Herzegovina male singers