Eldin Huseinbegović

Eldin Huseinbegović is a singer-songwriter from Sarajevo, born on 4 July 1978, who works in ethno-pop and in opera: since 2002 he has been a tenor with the opera of the National Theatre in Sarajevo. He has recorded songs with Dino Merlin and Hari Mata Hari.

His first public appearance came at the festival Mali šlager in 1987, and in 1992 he finished lower music school in Sarajevo. From 1992 to 1996 he performed spiritual music. In 1997 he won the Studentsko ljeto festival, and in 1998 in Maglaj he took the expert jury's second place and the prize for best music at the festival "Tamo gdje ljubav počinje". He entered the Bosnian Eurovision selection as a songwriter in 1997 and as a singer in 1999, and sang at the Bihać 2000 pop festival.

On the opera stage he has sung in La Traviata, The Marriage of Figaro, Nabucco, Tosca, Die Fledermaus, L'elisir d'amore, Hasanaginica, Ero s onoga svijeta and Zrinjski, and in the Requiems of Mozart and Verdi. At the BiH Radio-Television Festival he won the prize for best interpretation in both 2007 and 2008. In 2009 he received the Isa-beg Ishaković award for his contribution to the cultural and musical heritage of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in 2010 he was named ethno-pop singer of the year in BiH.

Since 1999 he has run his own music studio, where he writes and produces, and he has written more than 100 songs. Since 2007 he has written for many of the leading names in the region, among them Dino Merlin, Hari Mata Hari, Marija Šerifović, Elvira Rahić, Enes Begović, Osman Hadžić, Dženan Lončarević and Jelena Tomašević. In January 2010 he became a member of the Balkan Music Academy, a group of authors and producers from the Balkans.

The singles "Poslije tebe" (2007), "Tako bih rado" (2008) and "Strijela sudbine" (2009) led to his album Kaldrma in 2010, an autobiographical record he gave to his wife as a gift. As a guest he sang "Da šutiš" with Dino Merlin in 2008 and "Tvoje je samo to što daš" with Hari Mata Hari in 2009, and in 2022 he recorded "Djula" with the orchestra of Aleksandar Sofronijević. In 2019 he was the guest of Armin Muzaferija at a Bajram concert on the city square in Zenica.