Occupation singer Years active 1928–45 | Instruments vocals Name Resad Beslagic | |
Genres Bosnian folksevdalinka | ||
Rešad Bešlagić (1912–1945) was a Bosnian folk singer and one of the most significant sevdalinka interpreters of the 1930s and 1940s.
Biography
Bešlagić was born in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina shortly before World War I broke out in nearby Sarajevo in 1914.
He was killed during World War II by fascist Ustaše troops in Sarajevo, aged 33. Despite this well-known fact, during the time of communist Yugoslavia he was falsely put on the list of the Jasenovac concentration camp victims as a part of communist anti-Croatian propaganda.
References
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