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Kemal Monteno (17 September 1948 – 21 January 2015) was a Bosnian recording artist and singer-songwriter whose career stretched from the 1960s to the 2010s.

Kemal Monteno
Monteno pictured in 2011 in Klagenfurt, Austria
Born	(1948-09-17)17 September 1948 Sarajevo, PR Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia
Died	21 January 2015(2015-01-21) (aged 66) Zagreb, Croatia
Resting place	Bare Cemetery, Sarajevo
Occupation	Singer-songwriter
Spouse	Branka Monteno ​ (m. 1971)​
Children	2
Musical career
Genres	Folk, pop, sevdalinka
Instrument(s)	vocals, guitar
Labels	Jugoton, Diskoton, Croatia Records, Nimfa Sound
Musical artist

Early life

Monteno's father Osvaldo was an Italian from Monfalcone.[1] During World War II, he was drafted and deployed to occupied Yugoslavia in 1945 where he met a Bosniak woman named Bahrija in Sarajevo and fell in love.[2] Osvaldo left his pregnant wife in Italy to marry Bahrija.[3] Osvaldo's Italian wife gave birth in 1946 to a daughter named Daniela, Monteno's half-sister. Kemal was born to Osvaldo and Bahrija two years later in Sarajevo. Although his father was Catholic and his mother was a Muslim, Monteno was given a Muslim first name.[4]

Osvaldo only spoke Italian and sang canzones to Monteno when he was a child, while his mother sang him Bosnian sevdalinkas.[5] Both Osvaldo and Bahrija were employed at Sarajevo's Koševo Stadium.[6]

Career

He recorded his first song "Lidija" in 1967 and enjoyed a prosperous career in Yugoslavia. He is perhaps best known for "Sarajevo ljubavi moja", a tribute to his home town.[7]

Many of his songs have also been performed by others. For instance, "Bacila je sve niz rijeku" was a hit not only for him, but for Toše Proeski, Crvena Jabuka and Indexi (the latter being the big hit). Similarly, others had success performing "Nekako s proljeća" (that one being a duet with Crvena Jabuka in 1991) and "Nije htjela". In a February 2014 interview, Monteno said that "Nije htjela" (She Did Not Want To) was written about a famous Yugoslav musician's wife, who was in love with another singer.[8]

Over the years, due to his style of music, he became known as the "Bosnian Roy Orbison", and even the "Bosnian Neil Diamond."[9]

Personal life

Monteno met his future wife Branka in 1967 in Sarajevo. They married on 26 June 1971[10] when he returned from his mandatory stint in the Yugoslav People's Army.[11] Together they had a daughter Adrijana and a son Đani.[12] He spent the entirety of the 1990s war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in besieged Sarajevo.[13]

Illness and death

Monteno was diagnosed with diabetes in the late 1990s and received three-hour dialysis twice a week at the University Hospital Centre Zagreb. Diabetes weakened his heart and Monteno felt that the stress of the war in his country also contributed to his illness.[14][15]

Monteno suffered a heart attack on 30 December 2011[16] and had bypass surgery in January 2012. A performance at the 2012 Split Festival that summer was cancelled due to health issues[17] and rumors of his death circled the internet on 10 October 2012, even being picked up as fact by media in the region.[18]

On 15 November 2014, after nearly three years of waiting, Monteno received a phone call that a kidney was available for transplant.[19] He received the transplant the following morning in Zagreb.[20][21] He was again hospitalized in December 2014 and doctors believed that his "body did not accept the kidney that was transplanted in November."[22][23][24]

Monteno died on January 21, 2015, the birthday of Halid Muslimović before turning 54 at Zagreb Rebro Hospital of pneumonia and sepsis[25] In the hospital, doctors fought for Monteno's life for hours to no avail.[26][27][28] He was buried in his hometown of Sarajevo at the Bare Cemetery on 28 January 2015, seven days after his death.[29]

Discography

Studio albums

Singles and EPS

Compilation albums

• Volim te živote kakav jesi (1978)
• The Platinum Collection (2007)
• The Best Of... // Live (2012)
• 50 originalnih pjesama (2014)

References

External links

• Kemal Monteno at Discogs
• Kemal Monteno in Osijek (6.11.2009.) - photo gallery

Awards and achievements
Preceded by J-DA	Sunčane Skale winner with Teška industrija 2013	Succeeded by Dimitar Andonovski

На других языках

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[de] Kemal Monteno

Kemal Monteno (* 17. September 1948 in Sarajevo, Jugoslawien; † 21. Januar 2015 in Zagreb[1], Kroatien) war ein bosnischer Schlagersänger und Liedermacher.

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- [en] Kemal Monteno

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[es] Kemal Monteno

Kemal Monteno (Sarajevo, 17 de septiembre de 1948 — Zagreb, 21 de enero de 2015) fue un cantautor y letrista yugoslavo, desde 1992 bosnio, de origen italiano.

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[ru] Монтено, Кемал

Кемал Монтено (босн. Kemal Monteno; 1948—2015) — югославский и боснийский певец и автор песен, карьера которого длилась почти 50 лет — с 1960-х по 2010-е годы.

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