Dina Bajraktarevic

March 19, 1953 (age 22)

Doboj, Doboj City, Bosnia and Herzegovina

The family surname has origins in the Ottoman Empire. Bajrak is the Turkish word for flag. Dina had a brother named Hajrudin who died about two weeks after being mauled by a dog in the 1940s. After her father"s cake shop closed, the family suffered greatly. She eventually landed a professional singing career which led way to sister Mirsada getting a record deal and recording her first album at the age of eighteen in 1969 and releasing it in 1970. The singing sisters, Silvana and Mirsada, died together in a car crash on 10 October 1976 near the Serbian village Kolari. At the time, Mirsada, who was in the second term of her pregnancy, was sharing a home with Dina. Hesitant to sing professionally at first, she ended up releasing three extended plays: one in 1978, 1979 and 1980. She had major success with the song "Sudbina je tako htjela" (Fate Wanted lieutenant That Way). Their sons Silvano and Silvan, named after Dina"s late sister Silvana, are singers as well, although Silvano is not singing actively anymore, whilst Silvan is taking music to a professional level with his voice. Bajraktarević made a return to music in 1987 with a full length studio album, Dođi dragi ne dangubi (Come Dear, Do Not Waste Time). That was her final release before retiring from music Mother Hajrija lived to the age of 91, dying in 2008.

Dina Bajraktarevic

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Background

Hajrudina Bajraktarević was born in the Bosnian city of Doboj to a Muslim Bosniak family with thirteen children. Her father was Mehmed Bajraktarević (1909–1966), a local cake shop operator, and her mother was Hajrija (1916–2008).

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The family surname has origins in the Ottoman Empire. Bajrak is the Turkish word for flag. Dina had a brother named Hajrudin who died about two weeks after being mauled by a dog in the 1940s.

After her father"s cake shop closed, the family suffered greatly.

She eventually landed a professional singing career which led way to sister Mirsada getting a record deal and recording her first album at the age of eighteen in 1969 and releasing it in 1970. The singing sisters, Silvana and Mirsada, died together in a car crash on 10 October 1976 near the Serbian village Kolari.

At the time, Mirsada, who was in the second term of her pregnancy, was sharing a home with Dina. Hesitant to sing professionally at first, she ended up releasing three extended plays: one in 1978, 1979 and 1980.

She had major success with the song "Sudbina je tako htjela" (Fate Wanted lieutenant That Way).

Their sons Silvano and Silvan, named after Dina"s late sister Silvana, are singers as well, although Silvano is not singing actively anymore, whilst Silvan is taking music to a professional level with his voice. Bajraktarević made a return to music in 1987 with a full length studio album, Dođi dragi ne dangubi (Come Dear, Do Not Waste Time). That was her final release before retiring from music

Mother Hajrija lived to the age of 91, dying in 2008.

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