Zehra Bajraktarević

Zehra Bajraktarević is a Bosnian singer of newly composed folk music and sevdalinka. She was born on 6 August 1968 in Rogatica, in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, the second daughter of Esad and Ifeta in a family of eight, and that birthplace is why she is on Muzika-Balkan. The sources do not say where she lives today.

She recorded her first album, Potraži me, in Sarajevo in 1991 with the composer Ibro Mangafić, and its title song became her most successful. Her second album, Greška mladosti, followed with the help of Šaban Šaulić. Through the 1990s and 2000s came Kocka šećera (1995), Ljubavnik (1997), with a duet with Halid Bešlić, "Plačem", Zaljubljena (2000), Ne vjeruj mu majko (2002), Samo nebo zna (2004) and Slobodna k'o ptica (2007).

Later she worked mostly with singles: "Kraljica" (2009), "Znam ja" (2014), "Laž i prevare" (2017), "Čekam" (2018) and "Laž" (2019), written and produced by Milić Vukašinović, Zejna Murkić and Goran Velinov Panča. "Najljepša nevjesta" (2020) has lyrics by Sanela Kopić, an arrangement by Sanel Džudža and Bertran Kominov on saxophone, and "Povela je kolo majka" came out in 2021. In 2022 she released Sevdaha, an album of sevdah. She appears on Hayat TV and Pink TV and keeps releasing new songs and old sevdalinke on her own channel. The playlist is her album Ljubavnik.