Kemal Monteno
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Kemal Monteno is a popular Bosnian
Bosnians
Bosnians are people who reside in, or come from, Bosnia and Herzegovina. By the modern state definition a Bosnian can be anyone who holds citizenship of the state. This includes, but is not limited to, members of the constituent ethnic groups of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Bosniaks, Bosnian Serbs and...

 singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

. He was born to an Italian father and a Bosniak mother. He recorded his first song Lidija in 1967 and has enjoyed a prosperous career in the former Yugoslavia. He is perhaps best known for Sarajevo ljubavi moja (Sarajevo Love of Mine), a tribute to his home town.

Many of his songs have also been performed by others. For instance, "Bacila je sve niz rijeku" (She threw everything down the river) was a hit not only for him, but for Tose Proeski
Toše Proeski
Todor Toše Proeski was a Macedonian multi-genre singer, songwriter and actor. He was popular across the entire Balkan area and all around Eastern Europe, and locally he was considered a top act of the Macedonian music scene...

, Crvena Jabuka
Crvena jabuka
Crvena jabuka is a Sarajevo-based pop band that originated in 1985, and since then has remained very popular. They were also a part of the so called New Primitives movement that occurred in the 1980s in the Former Yugoslavia territory....

 and Indexi
Indexi
Indexi was a Bosnian rock band popular in the former Yugoslavia. It formed in 1962 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, and disbanded in 2001 when singer Davorin Popović died...

. Similarly, others had success performing "Nekako s proljeća" (Somehow in a springtime) and "Nije htjela" (She didn't want).

Albums

  1. "Muziko, ljubavi moja" (1973)
  2. "Žene, žene" (1975)
  3. "Moje pjesme, moji snovi" (1977)
  4. "Za svoju dušu" (1980)
  5. "Dolly Bell" (1981)
  6. "Uvijek ti se vraćam" (1984)
  7. "Romantična ploča" (1986)
  8. "Kako da te zaboravim" (1988)
  9. "Dunje i kolači" (2004)
  10. "Samo malo ljubavi" (2009)

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