KEMAL MONTENO in Belgrade - YUGOSLAVIA 1982 / rare /
- 9 years ago
Steven Wagner - Stevan Vagner, Podrum COLLEGIUM MELODIUM, World music museum in BELGRADE, MINIMAX SEAD MEMIC, ZLATA, PIMPEK and Percholy, present Kemal Monteno (17 September 1948 – 21 January 2015) , a Bosnian singer-songwriter whose career stretched back to the 1960s. Monteno's father Osvaldo was an Italian from Monfalcone. During World War II, he was drafted and deployed to Yugoslavia in 1945 where he met a Bosniak woman named Bahrija in Sarajevo and fell in love. Osvaldo left his pregnant wife in Italy to marry Bahrija.Osvaldo's Italian wife gave birth in 1946 to a daughter named Daniela, Kemal's half-sister. Kemal was born to Osvaldo and Bahrija two years later in Sarajevo. Although his father was Catholic and his mother was a Muslim, Kemal was given a Muslim name.
Osvaldo only spoke Italian and sang canzone's to Kemal when he was a child, while his mother sang him Bosnian sevdalinkas. Both Osvaldo and Bahrija were employed at Sarajevo's Koševo stadium
Osvaldo only spoke Italian and sang canzone's to Kemal when he was a child, while his mother sang him Bosnian sevdalinkas. Both Osvaldo and Bahrija were employed at Sarajevo's Koševo stadium