Armin Muzaferija

Armin Muzaferija is a vocalist from Visoko, born on 1 December 1988, who brings the ethno melodies of the Balkans and the Bosnian sevdalinka to audiences at home and abroad. His most popular songs include "Studen vodo", "Vulkani", "Tvom Resulu", "Lasto mala", "Hadžija" and "Džehva".

He comes from a Bosniak musical family. In 2000 he received the award for most promising young performer at the traditional music festival in Zenica, the start of his career, and in 2001 he won the same festival, followed by many awards at local and regional young talent competitions. In the late summer of 2007 he went to Cambridge in the United Kingdom to study English, and on his return he enrolled at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Sarajevo.

Also in 2007 he began working with Hari Varešanović, who wrote and arranged "Još te volim". With that song Muzaferija took the expert jury's second award at the Melodije Mostara festival. At Sunčane skale in Herceg Novi the same year he finished fifth with "Povedi me", written by Varešanović and Fahrudin Pecikoza, and in 2008 he won two awards at the 12th Croatian Radio Festival with "Gdje mi ljubav spava".

In Croatia he sang at the "Veče sevdaha" evenings in Zagreb, Rijeka and Pula, and he was part of a big tour in honour of Indexi, beside Hari Varešanović, Aki Rahimovski, Mladen Vojičić Tifa, Željko Bebek, Teška industrija and others. His debut album Još te volim came out on Hit Records in 2009, followed by Na srcu potpisan on Hayat Production in 2015. He also played his first film role in the short documentary feature Marimaga, singing the sevdalinka "Kad ja pođoh na Bembašu" on its soundtrack.

He has given concerts in many countries, among them the USA, England, Scotland, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Spain, France, Turkey, Italy, Norway and Germany, and he is a regular at Bajram concerts. In 2019 he headlined one on the city square in Zenica, with Eldin Huseinbegović as his guest. In 2020 he represented Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Turkvision Song Contest with "Džehva", which placed third of 26 entries with 194 points.