Edo Maajka
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Edo Maajka on the Exit festival in Serbia
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Edin Osmić |
| Born |
22 December 1978 Brčko, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia |
| Genres | Hip hop |
| Occupation(s) | Rapper, record producer |
| Instruments | Vocals, synthesizer, keyboards, turntables, drum machine, sampler, drum kit |
| Years active | 1992–present |
| Labels | Menart, Fmjam, Hayat Production |
| Associated acts | Frenkie, HZA, Disciplinska Komisija |
| Website | www.edomaajka.com |
Edin Osmić (born 22 December 1978), better known by his stage name Edo Maajka, is a Bosnian rapper, record producer and songwriter. His popularity brought his group, Disciplinska Komisija, which Frenkie is a part of, to the mainstream. His stage name literally means "The Mother's Hand".
Edin Osmić was born and raised in Brčko (at the time SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia) where he finished his elementary schooling. In 1992 when the Bosnian War started, he left Bosnia and Herzegovina and went to Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, where he began attending secondary mechanical engineering school. After the war, he returned to Bosnia to study criminal law in Tuzla, but never graduated.
He took an interest in hip-hop when he was still in high school and began battling at the age of fifteen. He also recorded a few of his demos on his own, creating his own backing by beatboxing. He went to Tuzla and became a member of the hardcore rap group Diskord, later named Odbrana (Defence in Bosnian). The group became one of the best in the city of Tuzla and all of Bosnia. Their demo single "Odbrana '99" (Defence '99) was the hit of the year on the "Radio Hit" station in Brčko.
After a year of studying, he left school due to financial problems and returned to Zagreb to meet a friend (from the group Elemental) and recorded his first single "Minimalni rizik" (Minimum Risk) and, a month later, "Mahir i Alma". The songs were top hits on the Zagreb "Radio 101" station's show "Blackout" and the response was enthusiastic. The demo, "Mahir i Alma", became Kameleon's hit of 2001.
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