Mirsada Bajraktarević
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Mirsada Bajraktarević 1951 Doboj, PR Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia |
| Died | 10 October 1976 (aged 25) Kolari, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia |
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| Years active | 1969–76 |
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Mirsada Bajraktarević (1951 – 10 October 1976), known professionally as Mirjana Bajraktarević, was a Yugoslav Bosniak sevdalinka singer and songwriter. ethnicity and the sister of Silvana Armenulić and Dina Bajraktarević. Mirjana and Silvana died in a car crash.
Her career reached its peak in 1974 with the songs "Doletjeće bijeli golub" and "Ne zovi me, ja ti neću doći". The year after her death, she had a posthumous hit single when "Rukama sam mahala za tobom" was released.
Mirsada Bajraktarević was born in the Bosnian city of Doboj, the seventh of thirteen children, to a Muslim Bosniak family. Her father was Mehmed Bajraktarević (1909–1966), a local cake shop operator, and her mother was Hajrija (1916–2008).
The family surname has its origins in the Ottoman Empire; bajrak is the Turkish word for flag. Mirsada's sister Zilha began singing at an early age, but their father, Mehmed, a local cake shop operator, was not supportive of her singing career.
Mirsada had a brother named Hajrudin who died about two weeks after being mauled by a dog in the 1940s. After her brother's death, her father found solace in alcohol and solitude, neglecting the family and his business. After her father's cake shop closed, the family suffered greatly. The family of thirteen children included sisters Mirsada, Hajrudina (Dina), Zilha (Silvana), Abida, and Ševka, and brothers Hajrudin, Muhamed, Izudin, Abudin, and Ismet. Her nephew Sabahudin Bilalović became a professional basketball player who died at age 43 of a heart attack on the beach while swimming with his son. Ten years later, Ševka and her husband Lutvo both died of natural causes in September 2013, just days apart.
In 1955, Silvana moved to Sarajevo at the age of sixteen where she lived with their aunt and sang in local kafanas for money. She eventually landed a professional singing career which led way to Mirsada getting a record deal and recording her first album at the age of eighteen in 1969 and releasing it on 18 February 1970.
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