Background
Đezić was born into a Bosniak Muslim family in Janja, near Bijeljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Đezić was born into a Bosniak Muslim family in Janja, near Bijeljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In 1964, Đezić became the first citizen of Tuzla to have their voice recorded on a gramophone record with the release of his first song "Tuzlanka se Sarajkama hvali" (English: The Tuzla Girl Brags to the Sarajevo Girls). His mother Hanifa died in February 1965. Before striking a record deal with Jugoton, Zekerijah worked as a hotel singer in Tuzla, Bijeljina and Zagreb.
He relocated to Sarajevo in 1959, singing in hotels for a few months before moving back to Tuzla in March 1960 and signing with Radio Tuzla.
He retired on 25 April 1996. In August 2002 Đezić was knocked down by a hit and run driver on a pedestrian crossing in Sarajevo, and died of his injuries two months later.
The driver of the car has never been foundation Zekerijah is buried at the Alifakovac cemetery in Sarajevo.