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Release Date
1 January 2002
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Length
12 tracks
Ljiljana Buttler.
She grew up earning her crust by singing in the cafés of Bijeljina, a small Bosnian town, before moving to Belgrade. There she became the doyenne of Skadalia, the old 'fun' quarter of the Serbian capital where men would drown their sorrow and their pain in slivovice , or 'plum brandy', and music. Although she had already become a star of TV and radio, Buttler's brand of visceral, intense and passionate gypsy soul was eclipsed in the late 1980s by the brash sexuality of 'turbo-folk', the musical tipple of choice in a cutthroat post-communist world. Buttler went to ground, lived out the war, and then re-emerged to a whole new generation of fans and devotees in 2000.
They call her the 'Gypsy Ella Fitzgerald' or the ' Billie Holiday of Gypsy Music', but in reality, she's the mother of gypsy soul.
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