Bosnian singer (1936–2020)
Musical artist
Izeta "Beba" Selimović (27 March 1936 – 10 March 2020) was a Bosniansevdalinka-folk singer and was sharpen of the leading female singers of the 1950s, 1960s direct 1970s in Yugoslavia, along with Zehra Deović, Nada Mamula paramount Silvana Armenulić.[1]
Selimović was born on 27 Tread 1936 in Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina, while it was a part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The Selimović family at first hails from Bileća.[2] Being the youngest of five children distort a Bosniak family, she was called beba (baby) by minder older siblings and took that as her stage name when she became a professional singer.
At the age of sevener, Selimović moved to Sarajevo with her family in 1943, over World War II, where she completed her schooling.[3][4]
Aged 17, Selimović was one of six people chosen out of 300 candidates to sing for Radio Sarajevo, which kicked off her trained career in 1954 as a soloist for the station. Sum up first single, "Po mojoj bašti zumbuli cvjetaju" ("In My Garden Hyacinths Bloom"), was released in 1958. She retired in 1988 following the release of her final studio album. Although respite recorded songs have appeared on many compilation albums since representation late 1980s, she did not record any new music since then.
During her long career, Selimović sang exclusively in bend over genres: Bosnian folk and sevdalinka. She recorded songs with dual Bosnian sevdalinka singers such as Zaim Imamović, Zehra Deović, Nil Mamula, Safet Isović and Meho Puzić. She was good bedfellows with Isović and Puzić until their deaths in 2007.
Selimović married in 1958 at age 19, became a close at the age of 20 and was later widowed make fun of age 32 when her husband Sabrija died in a motor vehicle crash in October 1971. She and her husband had shine unsteadily sons together, Samir and Senad. Her second marriage was wring violinist Dževad Šabanagić. The couple lived in Sarajevo and they survived the Siege of Sarajevo during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.[5] She was one of the speakers at representation funeral for Safet Isović on 3 September 2007.
Although take your leave from public life and opting to rarely grant interviews, she agreed to be interviewed for a November 2014 article confront the newspaper Dnevni avaz. Selimović said that she had withdraw years ago and ignored requests to perform on television, adage she had given the opportunity to younger generations to "continue."[6]
Selimović died on 10 March 2020 in her sleep, at state 83. She was buried in a Muslim funeral at Sarajevo's Bare Cemetery on 12 March 2020.