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Primarily, Haris Dzinovic is a singer with
an extraordinary voice qualities, but he is
also a composer, a musician and he writes lyrics
for his songs. Throughout his career, he has
sold nearly five million albums. He begun his
music career in the 1975. in his hometown Sarajevo
as a singer and composer of folk music when
pop and evergreen music was more dominant in
the Balkans area, so he prefers to compose for
others and gives out his melodies. Very soon,
fascinated by the Gypsy music, he founded a
band "Sar e Roma" in the 1981 with
a famous group of gipsy musicians, The Pavlovich
brothers. They played numerous concerts throughout
the world. Together with them, Haris Dzinovic
recorded three great albums between 1982-1986,
which have been published as a CD compilation
many years after their team-work. In 1989 he
started again with folk music and made some
kind of specific sound and style for his songs,
which became new urban songs accompanied with
some kind of ethno sound. With his first album
Haris already had a great success and almost
every song became a great hit. Trough all these
years those hits are on the very top of the
music charts. He has received a great number
of audience and music experts' awards for this.
Encouraged with this success, in 1991 he recorded
the second album, published for the same record
company as the first album - "Diskoton",
Sarajevo. Just at the moment when the songs
from it fascinated the audience again, civil
war commenced at the Balkans area. Harris retreated
to Austria and played many benefit concerts
for his compatriots from Bosnia. Finally, in
the 1994 he went to France, in the beginning
he was living in Cannes and Saint - Tropez and
nowadays he lives in Paris almost ten years.
Thanks to singing folk music and traveling all
over the world he had learned several languages.
At his performances he sings other performers'
songs and does it in different foreign languages;
English, Spanish, French, Russian, Greek...
and also plays many music instruments. While
in Cannes, he got a proposal he to make and
sing the gipsy version of the famous song "My
Way", composed many years ago by Claude
Francois, so unforgettably performed by Frank
Sinatra's performance. He took their offer and
"Warner Chappell Music" company published
it in the 1994, for the occasion of the 25th
year anniversary since the song has been first
performed. On that CD, his version "Cantar
Cigan" was found its place between 25 other
versions of the same song. After that was living
in Spain a while and in the music studio of
Kornelije Kovach, he started to work on new
songs, recording them in Spanish, English and
Gypsy language, for his international career.
At the same time, had made many different versions
of his old hits. Then appears a song "Are
the quinces bloomed?" which would has found
its place on his album published in the 1996
with other gipsy songs and his old - new version
songs. At the same time he was cooperating with
the famous band "Gipsy Kings". After
that Harris plans to start his international
career, he lives and works in Paris, opens a
restaurant there, named "Haris". At
that period he made some new songs and in the
2000, he published his new CD, by the "Zepter
World Music International" company. For
that album, almost all lyrics and music were
entirely his work. That CD was a great success
and was sold in numerous copies. He closes his
restaurant and turns all his forces to the music
career. He begins concerts tours in the USA,
Australia, Canada and in almost every big city
in Europe. His business success was further
extended in the last few years, with his wife
Melina giving a birth to their two children.
His daughter Djina and his son Kan are the newest
achievements in his life. He is in the studio
at the moment, preparing songs for his new CD,
to be released some time this year.
Translated by Ceca,
Ksenija, Dzeni
& Tatjana |
