Nada Mamula

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Nada Mamula (Нада Мамула) (born 1927, Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, died in 2001, Belgrade, Yugoslavia) was a prominent sevdalinka singer from Yugoslavia.

She started her career on Radio Beograd where she passed the audition in 1946 (as Nada Vukićević). Soon after marying Nikola Mamula, she moved to Sarajevo and started to work on Radio Sarajevo. Her first famous sevdalinka was "Ah meraka u večeri rane". She left over 150 recordings of sevdalinka interpretations as well as traditional Serbian songs in archives of Radio Beogard, Radio Novi Sad and Radio Sarajevo. She was one of the most popular singers of Yugoslavia in the second half of the twentieth century. Her discography includes two LPs records released by Jugoton, four LPs released in America, Canada, The Netherlands and Bulgaria and few dozen singles. She died and was buried in Belgrade in 2001.

Her best known interpretations are: "U đul bašti", "Mujo kuje konja po mjesecu", "Bosno moja", "Omer beže", "Negdje u daljine", "Bere cura plav jorgovan", "Na teferič pošla nana", "Ah meraka u večeri rane" as well as the ever famous unofficial anthem of Sarajevo "Kad ja Podjoh Na Bembasu".


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