Selma Bajrami (album)

Selma Bajrami is the eponymous eighth studio album by Bosnian pop-folk singer Selma Bajrami. It was released 23 July 2014 through Hayat Production in Bosnia and Herzegovina and City Records in Serbia.

Singles

A 20-second preview of the lead single "James Dean" (named after the American actor) was released on SoundCloud on 30 November 2012, while full song was released on YouTube on 14 December 2012. The song was originally titled "Djevojke" (Girls).

The second single "Nisam ti oprostila (English: I Haven't Forgiven You) and its music video premiered 19 December 2013. Less than two weeks later, Bajrami sang the ballad, "Moje milo" (English: My Dear) at a New Year's Eve television special. It served as the album's third single and is about her son, who was 17 months old at the time.

On 4 June 2014, "Tijelo bez duše" (English: Body Without a Soul), the album's upbeat pop fourth single, co-produced by Atelje Trag, had its premiere when the music video was released. The video was filmed in March 2014.

Selma Bajrami

Selma Bajrami (born 4 July 1980) is a Bosnian pop-folk singer. Her professional music career began when she was a teenager with the release of her first studio album When There Are No More Tears... in 1998. Since, she has become one of the regions leading pop stars with multiple hits and eight albums. Bajrami lives in Vienna, Austria.

Early life

Bajrami was born in the eastern Bosnian city Tuzla and grew up in the nearby village of Mramor. Her father Fadil (born 1957) is a Kosovo Albanian who moved to Bosnia in 1965 from the town of Đakovica in southwestern Kosovo, while her mother Enisa (born 1960) is a Bosniak from Tuzla. Selma has a sister Fahira (born 1977) and brother Enis (born 1984).

Bajrami and her family spent the entirety of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995 in the United Nations "safe area" city of Tuzla, during which Bajrami first began singing in kafanas.

Career

In the beginning of her professional career, she was a member of a music group called If, which she later left.