Džej Ramadanovski

Džej Ramadanovski (Serbian Cyrillic: Џеј Рамадановски; 29 May 1964 – 6 December 2020) was a Serbian singer of folk, turbo-folk and pop-folk music.[1] [2]

Džej Ramadanovski
Džej in 1998
Džej in 1998
Background information
Birth nameDžej Ramadanovski
Born(1964-05-29)29 May 1964
Resen, SR Macedonia, SFR Yugoslavia (today North Macedonia)
Died6 December 2020(2020-12-06) (aged 56)
Belgrade, Serbia
Genres
Occupation(s)Singer
Instrument(s)Voice
Years active1987–2020
Labels

He started his career in 1987 and released a series of albums during 1990s, but retired from recording due to ill health in the early 2000s. In the period from 1988 to 2003, he released 13 albums, with a handful of singles after that. He continued to perform and had previously toured internationally.[3] He died on 6 December 2020 in Belgrade, at the age of 56, due to cardiac arrest.[4]

Life and career

Džej Ramadanovski was born on 29 May 1964 into a Muslim Roma working-class family. His father Mazlam was a shoemaker and mother Barija a city green worker. His paternal grandfather moved to Belgrade after World War II.[3] The Ramadanovski family were originally from the town of Resen in today's North Macedonia.[1] As a young boy, his parents divorced and his father moved to Austria. Due to truancy from school, he was removed from his mother care and stayed with his grandmother, and was occasionally placed in care.[3] He grew up around the Dorćol neighbourhood of the capital Belgrade.[5] After service in the army, Ramadanovski held odd jobs and began singing in clubs.[3]

After being discovered by lyricist Marina Tucaković, he rose to prominence by coming second on the 1987 International Music Fair (MESAM) with "Zar ja da ti brišem suze".[4][1] With songs such as "Nedelja" (1991), "Sunce ljubavi" (1995) and "Upalite za mnom sveće" (1996). Džej finished as the runner-up at the Grand Music Festival in 2008 with "Imati pa nemati" and was also nominated for the Male Folk Singer of the Year award at the 2011 Serbian Popularity Oscar.[6] He continued to record and released approximately new studio albums every year during the 1990s and early 2000s. He worked with a number of lyricists and arrangers, including the Futa band, led by Aleksandar Radulović.[3]

Additionally, Džej made cameo appearances in movies Hajde da se volimo 2 (1989) and Vikend sa ćaletom (2020).[3]

In an interview with Politika, Ramadanovski stated that he was related to mobster Iso Lero "Džamba", who wrote several of his songs.[7] With his former wife Nada, he had two daughters Ana and Marija.[8][9]

Illness and death

In July 2017 Ramadanovski had his first heart surgery on one Private Clinic in the Austrian capital city Vienna.

In the beginning of 2020, a blood clot was found on his heart valve during an examination. On 6 December 2020, Ramadanovski died from a heart attack,[4][1][10] he was buried 5 days later.[8]

Discography
Studio albums
  • Zar ja da ti brišem suze (1988)
  • Ljubio sam, nisam znao (1988)
  • Jedan, dva (1989)
  • Ko se s nama druži (1991)
  • Blago onom ko rano poludi (1992)
  • Rađaj sinove (1993)
  • Sa moje tačke gledišta (1995)
  • Upalite za mnom sveće (1996)
  • Na ivici pakla (1997)
  • Oprosti majko (1998)
  • Zato (1999)
  • Ludo vino (2001)
  • Vozi, vozi... (2003)
Compilation albums
  • The Best Of Džej 1987 - 1994 Vol. 1 & Vol 2. (1994)
  • Balade (1997)

References
  1. Jovović, Pero (6 December 2020). "Preminuo Džej Ramadanovski" [Džej Ramadanovski passed away]. Nova.rs (in Bosnian). Nova S Media Holding. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
  2. Čvoro, Uroš (2016-03-03). Turbo-folk Music and Cultural Representations of National Identity in Former Yugoslavia. Routledge. p. 12. ISBN 978-1-317-00607-7.
  3. "Džej Ramadanovski Biografija". Biografija.org (in Serbian). 2018-11-11. Retrieved 2021-05-16.
  4. "Preminuo pevač Džej" (in Serbian). Danas. 12 December 2020.
  5. "Rođen Džej Ramadanovski, srpski pevač - 1964. godina". Archived from the original on 23 July 2014.
  6. "Određeni finalisti za Oskar Popularnosti" (in Serbian). Tracara.com. 20 January 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
  7. Ramadanovski, Džej (9 May 2015). "Vetrovi me lome, ja teram po svome". Politika. Belgrade. Archived from the original on 24 June 2019. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
  8. "U Beogradu pokopan Džej Ramadanovski, govor imama sve rasplakao". www.vecernji.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 2020-12-13.
  9. K, J. (15 December 2020). "Džejeva bivša žena NASLEĐUJE NJEGOVU PENZIJU OD 1.500 EVRA: Nadi Ramadanovski pripada novac iz Austrije". Blic.rs (in Serbian). Retrieved 2021-03-26.
  10. "ZATEKLA SAM GA NA KREVETU, KAO DA JE KRENUO DA USTANE: Menadžerka Andrijana opisala trenutak kada je pronašla mrtvog Džeja TUGA". kurir.rs (in Serbian). Retrieved 2021-03-27.
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