Himzo Polovina
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| Background information | |
| Born |
11 March 1927 Mostar, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes |
| Died | 5 August 1986 (aged 59) Plav, SR Montenegro, SFR Yugoslavia |
| Genres | sevdalinka · Bosnian folk |
| Occupation(s) | musician |
| Years active | 1953–86 |
Himzo Polovina (11 March 1927 – 5 August 1986) was a Bosnian singer and songwriter, and one of the most famous and widely revered sevdalinka artists in the region. In addition, Dr. Himzo Polovina was a neuropsychiatrist by profession.
Polovina was born in March 1927 in Mostar, while modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina was a part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. His father, Mušan Polovina, was a soldier during World War I in the 1910s. During his service in Ljubljana, he met and married Ivanka Hlebec, making Himzo Polovina the child of an ethnically mixed marriage between a Bosniak father and a Slovene mother.
Himzo was introduced to music and singing as a young child. His father played the šargija and would often sing sevdalinka songs. As their father sang, Himzo and his siblings sang along in unison.
In the late 1930s, right before World War II broke out, Polovina was taught to play the violin by renowned Czech professor and violinist Karla Malaceka.
From 1947 until he left for Sarajevo, he was a member of the folk ensemble "Abrašević", with whom he toured cities and villages across Yugoslavia. He loved the "richness" of the Bosnian national costume, and wore it every time he performed.
While he was a student of medical school in 1950, he was a member of the student cultural club "Slobodan Princip – Seljo" and performed with several other cultural clubs. During this, he successfully completed medical school and became a psychiatrist. In practice, he successfully applied methods of psychiatry, socio-therapy and music therapy. He continued to work in his profession even after becoming a successful singer. Polovina was a respected doctor in the Jagomir mental rehabilitation hospital in Sarajevo until his death.
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