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Ljiljana Buttler
12+ albums
Gypsyserbianfemale vocalistsbalkanfemale vocalist
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Ljiljana Buttler (1944-2010) was a Yugoslav Romani singer. Buttler was born Ljiljana Petrović on 14 December 1944 in Belgrade, then in FS Serbia, DF Yugoslavia. She was the daughter of a Croatian singer mother and a Romani accordionist father. Her father left the family shortly after the birth of his daughter. She moved to the city of Bijeljina, PR Bosnia and Herzegovina, where her mother performed in pubs. As a teenager she began singing, and when she returned to Belgrade she settled in the Skadarlija entertainment district. In the 1970s, she broke through in Yugoslavia as a singer and released several successful albums. During the 1980s her career slowed; in 1989, due to political unrest, she moved to Düsseldorf, West Germany. There she married and took her husband's surname. In 2001, the Amsterdam-based Bosnian music producer Dragi Šestić convinced Buttler to record a new album with the Bosnian band Mostar Sevdah Reunion: The Mother of Gypsy Soul (2002). In 2005, they released a second album, The Legends of Life, and in 2003 they embarked on concert series, particularly in Europe. The music of the group is a mix of Romani and Balkan music, jazz, and sevdalinka. Buttler's last album, Frozen Roses, was released in 2009. Buttler died of cancer at the age of sixty-five on 26 April 2010 in Düsseldorf. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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The Mother of Gypsy Soul
Frozen Roses
The Mother of Gipsy Soul
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The Legends Of Life
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Legends of life
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Pilem, pilem - Single van de Week
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Songlines CD #64 (Nov/Dec 2009)
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World 2006 (disc 2)
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World 2006
The Mother Or a Gypsy Child
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Ljiljana Buttler / The Mother Of Gypsy Soul
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Beginner's Guide to Eastern Europe Disc 2