#Edo & Adi Mulahalilović

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1993 Millstreet - Number 4 - Edo & Adi Mulahalilović - "Bosna će još pjevati"

Staying in Bosnia! This is Bosna će još pjevati (Bosnia Will Still Sing) and I'm fairly certain that if this had won, the EBU would have had to step in to enforce its rules on political songs. It directly references the war and the death of his friend in Stari Grad. It says that Bosnia sings not out of pain or because of war, but sings out of spite. The chorus goes:

"Bosnia will still sing because they can't kill my song. Bosnia will still sing and so I will stay here"

Wow. It's powerful, cathartic and it's pretty damn great.

It's by Edo and Adi Mulahalilović, joined on stage for the second verse by Davorin Popović. This is something of a meeting of the generations of Bosnian rock. Edo and Adi had been members of Hari Mata Hari until recently, a band with it's own Eurovision history. They were going it alone, starting with fiery entry into BH Eurosong 1993. The next year, their song Ostani kraj mene was written for Alma Čardžić and Dejan Lazarević, and went to be chosen as Bosnia's song for Eurovision 1994.

Davorin Popović was a fixture of the Bosnia music establishment. Not only was he singing in three of the songs in this competition (solo and with the band Grupa Izvodjaca), but he was the singer in Indexi, formed in 1962 and who were basically the Bosnian Beatles. He went on to represent Bosnia at Eurovision in 1995. Right here in this song you have the heart of the Bosnian music industry saying what they really think about what's going on.

The rumoured finishing order of BH Eurosong 1993 has this placed fifth out of the eleven songs, but boy is it from the heart.

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1994 Dublin - Number 19 - Alma & Dejan - "Ostani Kraj Mene"

Alma's back! Alma Čardžić & Dejan Lazarević were internally selected by Bosnia & Herzegovina to take part in 1994. There was a song selection competition of sort, although this involved a series of one minute snippets of each song with videos of Alma and Dejan hanging out together, attempting to live normal lives in what appears to be a rubble-strewn Bosnia.

Ostani Kraj Mene (Stay Beside Me) is the song that was selected by the jury, a story of devotion and commitment, presumably at a time of sadness and loss. Before diving into the song, the actual performance in Dublin is notable for the massive round of applause the audience gives Alma and Dejan before they've started. It goes on for so long that Dejan, temporarily overcome or perhaps unable to hear the orchestra, misses his cue for the start of the song.

It's a simple, but exceptionally touching love song sung between devoted lovers. It was clearly the best of the songs that were up for selection and was written by Edo and Adi Mulahalilović who have also already appeared in my top 26 for 1993.

I've already gone into Alma's musical history and we may even be seeing her again soon. For Dejan, this was a one-off. He didn't try to enter Eurovision again and as a flautist, his musical career focussed on him more as an instrumentalist than a singer. In Dublin they finished 15th of the 25 songs.

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