Portrait of Maja Milinković

Maja Milinković (Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: Маја Милинковић; born 21 April 1981) is a Bosnian fado singer and songwriter, born in Sarajevo, the capital of SR Bosnia and Herzegovina[1][2][3] (formerly a part of SFR Yugoslavia).

Milinković became known to a wide public in Bosnia and Herzegovina and other parts of Southeast Europe in 2003, as one of the 6 finalists of the first OBN Music Talent Show,[4][5] the popular television show in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

She began singing at an early age in a church choir during the Bosnian War, and learned to play guitar in a shelter. She started to sing in a rock band when she was 15. Her grandfather and grandmother encouraged her to sing. She graduated from the department of Music Theory and pedagogy at Music Academy of Sarajevo. She plays piano and guitar and works as a singer, songwriter, composer and music arranger. At 2009 she discovered the fado genre, and since then she has dedicated her life and work to it. Since 2013 she lives in Lisbon, Portugal.

Music career

Milinković became widely known in Bosnia and Herzegovina and other parts of the Balkan Peninsula in 2003, as she was one of the six finalists of the first OBN Music Talent Show.[4][5] After the show Maja recorded her first solo pop-rock album "Zacarani krug" in the Hayat production label. The album won eleven 11 awards, including a Davorin for the best female interpretation.[6] The song "Zovem Te" won 3 awards (interpretation, audience and arrangement) on the "Bihacki festival".[7] The song "Genijalno" won first place for interpretation of the "Expert’s Jury”,"I BHRTV festival".

In 2011 she released her second solo pop-rock album "Očekivanja"[8][9]

She discovered fado in 2009, through the voice of Portuguese fado leading singer Amália Rodrigues, and she started to do research on that genre. She also started to learn Portuguese. In 2012 she recorded the first fado album in Bosnia and Herzegovina,[10] the well known fado "Tudo isto é fado" which Amalia Rodrigues recorded at 1955, and since then has focussed on fado. During 2012, she had a dozen fado concerts in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Among them a concert at the most known music festival Baščaršija Nights in Sarajevo, where she accomplished a success, and the acceptance of fado music by the people of her country. At the end of 2012, she performed a glamorous concert at the Sarajevo Chamber Theater.[11][12] She was noted for her charismatic, powerful and strong emotional interpretation.[13]

Milinković moved to Portugal in 2013 where she currently lives.[14] 2015. release single "Znam za rijeku", the first fado on Balkan Slavic languages.[15] 2016. release single "Sou a chuva" .[16]

In 2017, she released the fado album "Fado é sorte"[17] at the Museu do Fado, in Lisbon. In 2019, she released the fado - sevdah album "Fadolinka"

Concerts

Solo concert in Lisbon in the Jerónimos Monastery in March 2017,[18][19] solo concert "Fado je sevdah"[20] at the Bosnian Cultural Center[21] in Sarajevo at the music festival “Baščaršijske noći" (Baščaršija Nights), in 2017,[22] concerts in Teatro Ibérico, Auditório Camões, Zenica Summer festival, Konjic Summer festival, Chamber theater 55, National Multicultural festival in Canberra 2020[23] are just some of the venues from the long list of Maja's concerts.

Discography

Albums

  • 2006 - Začarani krug CD
  • 2011 - Očekivanja CD
  • 2012 - Expectations CD
  • 2013 - Fado Meu Maja live CD
  • 2017 - Fado é sorte CD[24]
  • 2019 - Fadolinka CD [25]
  • 2021 - Kaftan d' Alma

Singles

  • 2007 - "Mito bekrijo"
  • 2008 - "Kraj"
  • 2009 - "Ako te ne budem imala"
  • 2012 - "Tudo isto é fado"
  • 2013 - "Trago fados nos sentidos"
  • 2015 - "Znam za rijeku"
  • 2016 - "Sou a chuva"[26]
  • 2018 - "Romansa- Uspavanka za dušu"[27]
  • 2018 - "Não há fado sem saudade" [28]
  • 2022 - "Sarajevo u duši mi spavaš"
  • 2022 - "Não há fado sem saudade (remix)"

References

  1. ↑ "Maja Milinković". ReverbNation.
  2. ↑ "Maja Milinkovic artist profile". Portal do Fado (in Portuguese). 2 February 2016.
  3. ↑ "Fadista bósnia Maja Milinković apresenta novo álbum "Fado é Sorte"". Fundação Manuel Simões (in Portuguese). 1 March 2017. Retrieved 19 May 2017.
  4. 1 2 "OBN SuperNov@ Music Talents Show". Klix.ba. 17 November 2003.
  5. 1 2 "Obn music talents 2003". WN.com. 3 November 2014. Archived from the original on 9 February 2018.
  6. ↑ "Nagrada DAVORIN - 2006 godina". davorin.ba. Retrieved 20 May 2017.
  7. ↑ Moj posao je velika podavnica snova
  8. ↑ "Radio Gbg - 94.9 Mhz - Maja Milinković: novi album "Očekivanja"". radiogbg.se (in Bosnian). Retrieved 19 May 2017.
  9. ↑ "Video: ˝Očekivanja˝ Maje Milinković". TIP.ba. Retrieved 19 May 2017.
  10. ↑ "VIDEO / Maja Milinković snimila prvi fado singl u BiH". Klix.ba (in Bosnian). Retrieved 19 May 2017.
  11. ↑ "Maja Milinković Simoneli i "Fado Verdadeiro" u Kamernom teatru". Klix.ba (in Bosnian). Retrieved 20 May 2017.
  12. ↑ "Maja Milinkovic ˝fado I Ja˝ Live Chamber Theatre 55 Part 1". World News. Retrieved 20 May 2017.
  13. ↑
  14. ↑ Faktor.ba. "Maja Milinković-Simonelli karijeru gradi u Portugalu: Na fado albumu i dvije sevdalinke". Retrieved 20 May 2017.
  15. ↑ "Portal do Fado - Maja Milinkovic - Sei de um rio (bósnio)". www.portaldofado.net. Retrieved 20 May 2017.
  16. ↑ "Portal do Fado - Fadista Maja Milinkovic apresenta o fado "Sou a chuva" ". www.portaldofado.net. Retrieved 20 May 2017.
  17. ↑ "Portal do Fado - "Fado é Sorte", novo álbum de Maja, lançado no Museu do Fado". www.portaldofado.net. Retrieved 20 May 2017.
  18. ↑ Maja Milinkovic fado (23 April 2017), Maja Milinkovic -Concerto em Lisboa/Fado é sorte, retrieved 23 May 2017
  19. ↑ "Portal do Fado - Maja Milinkovic apresenta "Fado é sorte" nos Jerónimos". www.portaldofado.net. Retrieved 23 May 2017.
  20. ↑ Maja Milinkovic fado (1 August 2017), Maja Milinkovic - Fado je sevdah concert in Sarajevo, I/IV, retrieved 11 October 2017
  21. ↑ "Bosnian Cultural Center". Sarajevo.travel. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
  22. ↑ "Klix.ba".
  23. ↑ "National Multicultural Festival 2020".
  24. ↑ "SevenMuses — Music Books". sevenmuses.pt. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
  25. ↑ Fadolinka, retrieved 28 April 2020
  26. ↑ "Portal do Fado - Fadista Maja Milinkovic apresenta o fado Sou a chuva ". www.portaldofado.net. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
  27. ↑ "Maja Milinković objavila novu fado pjesmu "Romansa - uspavanka za dušu" (VIDEO)". Klix.ba (in Bosnian). Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  28. ↑ "Portal do Fado - A fadista Maja Milinkovic revela um dos temas do seu próximo trabalho". www.portaldofado.net. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
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