Mahir Paloš

Mahir Paloš is a Bosnian pop singer, born on 18 January 1948 in Sarajevo. Between 1965 and 1990 he sang schlager, pop songs and ballads, and he is counted among the voices of the Sarajevo school of pop and rock music. He still lives in Sarajevo.

He made his debut in 1965 at the Omladina festival in Subotica. His first big success came in 1971 at the Prvi aplauz festival in Banja Luka, with "Čekala je majka sina", a song by Kemal Monteno. It came out on a single with "Dvije ruže" in 1972.

Monteno also wrote his best-known song. Mahir Paloš sang "Spavaj, cvijete moj" at the Vaš šlager sezone festival in Sarajevo in 1973; it became his biggest hit, was released on a single with "Gdje si sad" and gave its title to his first LP in 1975. In 1973 and 1974 he took part in the Jugovizija selection in Opatija, the Yugoslav selection for Eurovision, for RTV Sarajevo.

He was a regular at Vaš šlager sezone and also sang at festivals in Split, Opatija, Zagreb and Belgrade. He worked with the composers Đorđe Novković and Đelo Jusić and the arrangers Esad Arnautalić, Stipica Kalođera and Julije Marić, and recorded for RTV Sarajevo, Jugoton and Diskoton.

Besides about twelve singles, among them "Potraži me" with "Odvedi me" in 1976, he released three albums: Spavaj, cvijete moj (1975), Pjesme za dvoje (1980) and Adio (1989), which closed his singing career. This playlist gathers his recordings, from "Spavaj, cvijete moj" and "Čekala je majka sina" to "Južni vjetar", "Mirišu li naše ruže" and "Sama si, a još te volim".