Asim Brkan

Asim Brkan (born 14 October 1954) is a Bosnian folk singer and musician from Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Biography

Early life and career beginnings

Brkan was born into a Bosniak family in Mostar, while Bosnia and Herzegovina was a part of Yugoslavia. His father was Ibro and his mother was Bisera. He grew up in the countryside with cousins, as his mother was ill and working. After their financial situation improved, they moved to the center of the city and Brkan finished electrotechnics schooling. During his teens he sang at a cultural club in Mostar and by his late teens he had performed several times at the hotel Ruža (Rose), next to the Neretva river. He also later performed sevdalinka and old folk songs at a hotel called Neretva (named after the river) and various restaurants around the city. A few years later he was noticed and signed by the record label PGP-RTB.

When he was 18 years old, a hairdresser from Novi Sad offered him a job as a model, he accepted, but kept the job for only five months.