Selma Bajrami's professional music career began when she was a teenager joining the pop group "IF".
15 Facts About Selma Bajrami
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Selma Bajrami grew up in the nearby village of Mramor where she spent the entirety of the Bosnian War, during which she started singing in kafanas.
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Selma Bajrami started singing professionally at the age of 15, performing at local festivals and venues.
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Selma Bajrami competed in the selection for the representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Zaljubena" which was held on March 1,2003 in Skenderija in Sarajevo.
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In 2012, Selma Bajrami recorded the single "James Dean" and retired from the scene to devote herself to motherhood.
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Selma Bajrami began work on her 8th studio album in 2012.
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The full album, Selma Bajrami was released 23 July 2014 through Hayat Production and City Records.
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Selma Bajrami met her first husband, Zoran Vuckovic from Sarajevo, in March 2003 in the Croatian city of Makarska, where they married six months later.
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Selma Bajrami met her second husband, a Bosnian man named Mujo Music in July 2011, during a performance of hers at the Modrac Lake by Lukavac.
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Selma Bajrami moved with her second husband to his home in Vienna, Austria.
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Selma Bajrami was about two months pregnant on her wedding day and although she had a birth due date of 4 July 2012, her 32nd birthday, she gave birth via caesarean section to a baby boy named Daris seven days later than expected on 11 July 2012 in Vienna.
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Selma Bajrami did not celebrate her son's first birthday in 2013 as he was born on the anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide.
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Selma Bajrami has stated that she will never celebrate his birthday on that date out of respect for the victims.
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On 28 February 2010, Selma Bajrami was attending a friends birthday party in Belgrade, when she was attacked and assaulted by a drunk man.
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Selma Bajrami was treated in a hospital and sued her assailant.