Balkan ‘Gypsy King’ Saban Bajramovic dies
Romano Vodi – Balkan ‘Gypsy King’ Saban Bajramovic dies – News
Saban Bajramovic, a crooner celebrated as the “king of Gypsy music” in the Balkans, has died at the age of 72, the newspaper Politika reported Monday, cited by AFP. Bajramovic, who had been forced to stop performing several weeks ago because of serious health problems, suffered a fatal heart attack and died at a hospital on Sunday in his southern Serbian hometown of Nis. Born in Nis on April 16, 1936, Bajramovic skipped school as a child and got a street education in music like many of the region’s Roma, or gypsies. Bajramovic founded a band while serving a jail term for deserting the army at the notorious communist-era Goli Otok island prison off Croatia’s coast.
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