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“Early this morning in Belgrade, well-known Romani singer and stage actress Usnija Redžepova succumbed to the lung cancer she'd been battling for the last three years,” Alex Marković posted to the EEFC listserv on October 1, 2015.

Usnija Redžepova was born on February 4, 1946, in Skopje, Macedonia, of Romani and Turkish parents who were very poor.

At around age 17, she excelled in a Radio Skopje pop singing contest and radio officials tried to convince her strict father to let her become a professional singer, which was not considered a suitable path for a Romani girl at the time.

He prevailed and she continued with her schooling, but after completing her secondary studies, she began singing in cafes and then joined the Nasko Džorlev ensemble and toured Yugoslavia for five years.

In 1966 she released her first recordings on the Jugoton label.

For her early recordings, the studio assigned her the stage name Usnija Jašarova to avoid confusion with Esma Redžepova; t