{"id":2698,"date":"2018-10-19T07:55:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T05:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.divanhana.ba\/?page_id=2698"},"modified":"2026-05-01T20:38:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T18:38:42","slug":"biography2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.divanhana.ba\/en\/biography2\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Divanhana was formed at the beginning of 2009 by a group of students from Music Academy in Sarajevo. The band performs traditional music from Balkan in their new recognizable arrangements influenced by Jazz, Pop and Classical music. They especially focus on nurturing and presenting sevdah, the urban traditional music of Bosnia & Herzegovina.\u00a0In addition to a very dedicated and exploring approach to tradition, Divanhana enriches their creative opus with originally written music inspired by traditional songs.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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The band recorded its debut album\u00a0Dert<\/i> <\/a>in February 2011 at the Fattoria Musica<\/i> studio in Osnabruck in cooperation with the performer of traditional music Vanja Muhovi\u0107. The album was produced by Walter Quintus, one of the most acknowledged world music producers. It was released in May 2011 as a result of a two-year ethnomusicologist research reflected by the fact that some of the songs on the album were never recorded or published before.\u00a0After the successful and inspiring experience with the debut album, the band continued to cherish the Balkan traditional music. In September 2011, they began to work with a new singer Leila \u0106ati\u0107.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Divanhana developed their concert activities by taking part in prestigious festivals\u00a0 <\/span>such as 12 Points <\/i>in Porto and WOMEX<\/i> in Thessaloniki. Besides that, Divanhana dedicates to creative work, and recording of new songs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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At the beginning of 2013 Divanhana had held very successful concerts in Sweden, Germany, Czech Republic and Turkey, and later on by the end of the same year they released their new album Bilje\u0161ke iz \u0160estice<\/i><\/a>, which crowned the two years touring, travelling and creative work of the band. They had proudly performed at 70 successful concerts in 13 different countries. Bilje\u0161ke iz \u0160estice<\/i> was published at the end of 2013 by RSG Radio<\/i> from Sarajevo for the market of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and by Multimedia Music<\/i> from Belgrade for the market of the Balkan region.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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After the second CD release, the band had intensified their concert activities, and realized over 60 successful concerts all around Europe. <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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During the February of 2015, the members of the band, including the sound engineer and the producer Borjan Milo\u0161evi\u0107, took a short break from the packed up concert schedule, and started recording new music in a warm atmosphere of Fattoria Musica<\/i> Studio in Osnabruck. At the recording session, among many collaborators, the band also cooperated with a young and talented sevdah performer Naida \u010cati\u0107, who became a new member of the band shortly after their album was released. All of the creative work that they have made during the year of 2015, was united and symbolically named Zukva<\/i><\/a>. The new album was published by Belgrade\u2019s Multimedia Music<\/i>, for the territory of ex Yugoslavia, and by ARC Music<\/i> from Great Britain for the rest of the world.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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After the releasing of the new album, Divanhana began their new concert tour named Zukva<\/i>. During the three years long tour, the band had 150 concerts all around the Balkans and Europe, and took part at many eminent world music festivals. The tour brought some new very successful projects such as: first live release Live in Mostar<\/i> <\/a>and\u00a0 <\/span>Zukva<\/i> documentary<\/a>, which was covered by television network Al Jazeera Balkans.<\/i><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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By the end of 2017, Divanhana performed their concert in Istanbul, where the popular Turkish actress and singer Suzan Karde\u015f appeared as a special guest star.\u00a0Not long after the concert in February of 2018, Divanhana and Suzan met in Sarajevo, and through the friendship and creative work they had recorded a new audio material, which they published on their new studio album named Karde\u015f.\u00a0<\/i>The new album Karde\u015f <\/i><\/a>was made of ten songs that originate from Bosnian and Turkish music tradition, that have travelled and communicated for centuries, kissed and hugged, created new love, happiness and sadness spreading the musical brotherhood and sisterhood.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Karde\u015f<\/i> was published in April of 2018. by Kalan Muzik<\/i>, one of the most acknowledged world music publisher in Turkey, which gets Divanhana\u00a0 <\/span>its first publish for that territory. After releasing their album, Divanhana and Suzan began their promotive concert tour with sold out concerts in Sarajevo, Tuzla and Zenica (BiH), and Belgrade (Serbia). Among the concerts with Suzan, the band performed their own concerts all around Europe, and did the first project with The Embassy of the USA in Bosnia and Herzegovina in which they managed to connect Broadway and sevdah for the first time. By connecting the Broadway and sevdah, the band made a collaboration with the acknowledged American Broadway singer, Bradley Dean, and released the single Vino piju nane age Sarajlije.<\/i><\/p>

By the beginning of September of 2018 they continued with the realization of the project with The Embassy of the USA in Bosnia and Herzegovina, this time with Broadway musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee<\/i> where they collaborated with a young artist \u0160ejla Grgi\u0107. They presented the musical to the audience in seven cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Sarajevo, Mostar, Bijeljina, Tuzla, Zenica, Jajce and Banja Luka.\u00a0Shortly after the premiere of the musical, \u0160ejla Grgi\u0107 became a new band member.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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At the beginning of 2019 Divanhana had started a new chapter marked by work on original music, which is the result of ten years of ethnomusicological research. Thus, they have published their first originally written songs Zova<\/i><\/a> and Vo\u0107e rodilo<\/i><\/a> in collaboration with a young performer of traditional music Danica Krsti\u0107. The year was marked by many concert activities on festivals all over Europe, the first overseas tour of the band in Canada, including work on original music and writing of the last compositions and arrangements for the new fourth studio album.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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At the beginning of 2020, the band met a recognized Slovenian producer Janes Kri\u017eaj with whom they traveled to studio MC Pavarotti<\/i> in Mostar on demo recording. By the beginning of the next month they finished their new album at METRO<\/i> studio in Ljubljana. On their return from Ljubljana on February 29 the band had a concert at the Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall<\/i> in Zagreb<\/a>, which was their last concert before the Coronavirus pandemic started. Being kept from performing, traveling and even rehearsing in their studio in Sarajevo, the band members, thanks to modern technology play music from separate locations from the comfort of their homes and exchange audio materials which they turn into Quarantine EP<\/i> by the end of the year and release it on the music platform BandCamp.<\/i><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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At the beginning of 2021, in collaboration with the band’s long-term associate Borjan Milo\u0161evi\u0107, the band finished the mix of the new album, which, due to all circumstances under which it was completed, they symbolically named Zavrzlama<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>

\u201cZavrzlama represents our lives in Bosnia and Herzegovina which are so tangled and influenced by different traditions, religion and culture. It represents our rivers, their tributaries, and streams which thigh our mountains that reach so high from where we can see the whole planet. Zavrzlama is also our sevdah tangled with instruments brought from east and west, rhythm structure from different ends of the world, lyrics with a pinch of love, a pinch of joke and a pinch of tragedy. In the end Zavrzlama is the music of this album.”<\/i> said the members of the band about their new album.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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On January 28, 2022 CPL Music<\/i> from Germany released the new Zavrzlama<\/i> album for the worldwide market and Belgrade’s Multimedia Music<\/i> for the territory of the former Yugoslavia. Zavrzlama<\/i> received extremely positive reviews and criticism from eminent European and World media. For two months Zavrzlama<\/i> was the leader of the European radio panel World Music Charts<\/i> and the high second place of the World critic panel Transglobal World Music Charts<\/i>. The British Songlines<\/i> Magazine highlights Zavrzlama<\/i> in the competition for the Top of the World<\/i> album, while the founder and longtime editor of the magazine Simon Broughton already sees this album as the sevdah album of the year.<\/p>

Carried by the wings of the new studio release and great reviews, the band begins their new concert tour #ZavrzlamaTour<\/i>, which in the first half of 2022 included concerts in Oslo, Budapest, Vienna, Linz, Ankara and many more European cities.\u00a0In the middle of the tour Divanhana makes a public announcement that they are finishing their professional collaboration with \u0160ejla Grgi\u0107, and they present their new member Selma Droce with whom they continue their tour.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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#ZavrzlamaTour<\/em> continued throughout 2023, during which Divanhana records exceptionally successful concerts in the countries of former Yugoslavia, but also participates in festivals in Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Greece and another European countries.\u00a0<\/span>The end of the year brought two important awards for the band.\u00a0<\/span>Namely, Divanhana was awarded in Istanbul in the category The best artist of Bosnia and Herzegovina<\/em>\u00a0within the sixth edition of the Best of Rumeli<\/em><\/a>, event organized and initiated by RUBAFED, an organization founded with the goal of establishing and maintaining friendly and partnership relation with the Balkan countries.\u00a0<\/span>Also, the prestigious Songlines<\/em> magazine from London recognized Divanhana as the best world music group in the world<\/a> which represents the greatest international success documented in the history of traditional music of Bosnia and Herzegovina.<\/p>

Songlines Music Awards Ceremony<\/em>\u00a0was held in December 2023, where the bend was awarded the Best Group<\/em>\u00a0award. On that occasion Divanhana presented the song Na Ku\u0161latu se mahrama vihori<\/em><\/a>, which, as they previously stated, represents the creative peak of their latest studio release.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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Carried by the success of their album Zavrzlama Divanhana maintainedan intensive concert schedule throughout 2024,\u00a0 including premiere performances in numerous cities worldwide, as well as appearances at some of Europe\u2019s most prestigious festivals.<\/p>

In May, the band embarked on its first major tour of Australia, performing in renowned concert halls such as the Elizabeth Murdoch Hall<\/em> in Melbourne and The Concourse Hall<\/em> in Sydney. During the summer of 2024, Divanhana appeared at prominent European festivals, notably Rudolstadt<\/em> and Bardentreffen<\/em> in Germany, as well as the Pal\u00e9o Festival in Switzerland. In the autumn of the same year, the band completed its largest European tour to date, comprising nearly 20 concerts. The tour also included premiere performances in England, highlighted by a concert at the legendary Jazz Cafe<\/em> in London.<\/p>

The final concert of the Zavrzlama tour took place in Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro. This event carried special significance, as on December 4, 2024, sevdalinka\u2014the traditional urban song of Bosnia and Herzegovina\u2014was officially inscribed on UNESCO\u2019s<\/strong> Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. This milestone symbolically brought the Zavrzlama tour<\/em> to a close, while also marking the culmination of long-standing efforts by Divanhana and numerous sevdah artists to secure sevdalinka\u2019s place within the rich tapestry of global cultural heritage.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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At the beginning of the year, Divanhana brings together creative ideas shaped over years of intensive touring and concert activity during the Zavrzlama tour. This process culminates in the writing and arranging of new compositions, and by the end of February the band enters the studio, where they begin recording an extensive body of material that will take form as a new studio album by the end of 2025. Recording sessions take place in Sarajevo and Ljubljana.<\/p>

In early March, the band achieves significant international recognition by being selected for the program of the prestigious showcase festival Babel Music XP in Marseille. Out of 1,908 submitted projects from 89 countries across five continents, Divanhana is among the chosen acts, further affirming its mission \u2014 promoting the traditional music of Bosnia and Herzegovina on the global stage.<\/p>

At the end of March, Divanhana performs in Marseille, though this is not their only visit to France in 2025. Already in April, the band takes part in the Welcome in Tziganie festival in Seissan, continuing a series of notable international appearances. At the same time, Divanhana intensifies the promotion of sevdah in Italy and Montenegro, performing at numerous festivals as well as holding solo concerts.<\/p>

In September, the band performs at a cultural festival in Osnabr\u00fcck in northern Germany. Upon returning to Sarajevo, they begin promoting new material with the release of their first single, Rijekama<\/a>. The following month, on October 17, Divanhana releases their sixth studio album, Radio Sevdah<\/a>. The album blends original compositions with reinterpretations of sevdah classics in a contemporary style. At the same time, it serves as a tribute to the former Radio Sarajevo, whose rich archive has long inspired the band members, shaping the conceptual and artistic framework of this release.<\/p>

The remainder of the year is dedicated to an intensive concert promotion of the new album, resulting in a series of highly successful performances across Europe. Following notable concerts in Germany and Austria, the band also makes debut appearances in Luxembourg and Liechtenstein, further expanding their international reach. The culmination of an exceptionally productive 2025 comes with a major concert in the heart of Sarajevo, where, accompanied by sevdah and in front of more than 60,000 attendees, the band welcomes the New Year 2026.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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