Biography

Damir Imamović From the international press on Damir Imamović: "A true revolutionary of the genre!” www.sevdalinkas.com “The king of sevdah music!” www.huffingtonpost.com “…a new take on Balkan blues!” Guardian “The new direction in Bosnian sevdah!” fRoots “Not only a new sevdah singer – a new sevdalinka was born with Damir” Svetlana Slapšak, Peščanik "Damir Imamović is a new, yet original sevdah voice of today!" Dragan Kremer, Vreme Damir Imamović, vocal and tambur Damir Imamović is a singer, musician, author and sevdah master from Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. He is coming from a family of sevdah musicians and represents a new generation of the traditional music of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Since 2005 Damir performs with his Trio, his “Sevdah Takht” quartet as well occasional projects with Jelena Popržan, Bojan Z, Eric Vloeimans, Greg Cohen and Derya Türkan and others. He recorded 6 CDs for different labels, including a renowned The Glitterbeat Records («Dvojka», 2016). He performed in The Kennedy Centre (Washington DC), Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Kolarac (Belgrade), Centre Pompidou (Paris), etc. A documentary film «Sevdah» by Marina Andree-Škop (DIM, 2009) was recorded alongside his work. He is very active as a traditional music educator with his SevdahLab program. Damir wrote the book «Sevdah», the first history of the genre (Vrijeme, 2016).