Alma Bandić

Alma Bandić is a Bosnian singer of sevdalinka, the old love songs of the towns of Bosnia. She is on Muzika-Balkan under Bosnia because she is a singer from Bosnia and Herzegovina who learned and sang this music in Sarajevo: the notes of a Smithsonian Folkways album describe her as a member of a student ensemble at the Sarajevo Music Academy and give her year of birth as 1969. Where she lives today is not known from the sources.

Her recording of "Il' je vedro, il' oblačno" (Is it clear, or cloudy?) was licensed from Radio-Television of Bosnia and Herzegovina for Bosnia: Echoes from an Endangered World, released by Smithsonian Folkways in 1993, where she sits beside Nada Mamula, Himzo Polovina, Emina Zečaj and Kadir Kurtagić. The CNRS sound archive in Paris dates the recording to 1984. The song tells of the young Ibrahim-beg Sokolović, carried away by his love for the sultan's wife, Sultan-Zulejha. The album notes call it an unusually expressive sevdalinka and say that singers like Alma Bandić, who bring artistic imagination to such deceptively simple songs, are rare.

Her voice reached a far wider audience in 2001, when Danis Tanović's film No Man's Land used her lullaby "Nini sine, spavaj sine"; the film's soundtrack credits name her as the singer. She also recorded the album Ljubav zna kome će doći with Azra Bandić for the label Sani Records, with songs such as "Ti si mi sve", "Cijeloga života" and the title song.

The playlist holds her own recordings that can be found online: the lullaby, known as "Uspavanka", and "Il' je vedro, il' oblačno".