Biography
Usnija Redžepova (Serbian Cyrillic: Уснија Реџепова, pronounced ; 4 February 1946 – 1 October 2015) was a Serbian and Macedonian singer of Romani and Turkish origin. She was born in Skopje but spent much of her life in Belgrade where she died.
At the beginning of her career, she used Usnija Jašarova (Serbian Cyrillic: Уснија Јашарова) as a stage name in order not to be confused with Esma Redžepova, another Romani singer from Macedonia. The two did not have any family connection.
Usnija Redžepova is not related to Esma Redžepova, another prominent Macedonian-Romani singer, but the two were close friends and released an album together in 1994, Songs of a Macedonian Gypsy, which gathers their main successes.
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