Izet Gegaj

Izet Gegaj, who has also released music as Izoni, is a folk singer, composer, arranger and producer from Bosnia and Herzegovina. According to the Discogs profile of his brother Ado Gegaj, the siblings Izet, Ado and Hajrija Gegaj started out together in a group called Najmlađi. Little else has been published about his life.

Most of his songs were written for others. He composed the music of Hajrija Gegaj's albums from her 1988 debut Il' rastanak, il' vjenčanje on, among them "Daj ne pričaj meni" (1990) and "Odnio si sunce, vrati se po tamu" (1991), and produced several of her records, from Uzmite me sebi (1991) to Pazi opasni (2012). He arranged and produced Ado Gegaj's album Ti si dio mene (1990), wrote the music of "Neću noćas zaplakati" for Dušica Spasojević (1988) and of "Plavo" for Jašar Ahmedovski (2002), and the lyrics of "Nova šota" for Nela Bijanić (1999).

His own records began with the cassette Tražim te, tražim (MAM Produktion, 1994), which he arranged and on which he played the keyboards, with Hajrija on backing vocals: "Seno moja, seno moja", "Princezo mala", "Šapućem tvoje ime" and the title song. Nije moje srce kamen, made with his band Orkestar Izeta Gegaja, followed in 1995, then Noć ljubavi and Seno moja in 1998, the second on Halix Produkcija with Halid Muslimović as executive producer and lyrics by Ibro Bublin and others. Hej ba šta ima ba came out under the name Izoni in 2004.

The playlist holds the 2012 digital editions of his songs, released as Izet Gegaj 1 and Tražim te tražim. "Daj ne pričaj meni", "Seno moja" and "Princezo mala" are the most played.