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Dino Merlin
Dino Merlin in 2011
Dino Merlin in 2011
Background information
Birth nameEdin Dervišhalidović
Born (1962-09-12) 12 September 1962 (age 61)
Sarajevo, PR Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia
GenresPop-rock, ethno-pop, pop, disco, world
Occupation(s)Musician, singer-songwriter, record producer
Instrument(s)Vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards
Years active1983–present
LabelsMagaza, Croatia Records
Websitedinomerlin.com

Edin Dervišhalidović (born 12 September 1962), known professionally as Dino Merlin, is a Bosnian singer-songwriter and record producer.[1][2] Born in Sarajevo, he was the founder and leader of Merlin, which was one of the best-selling rock bands of Southeast Europe.[3][4]

Nicknamed "The Wizard", he is considered one of the most prominent and commercially successful artists ever to emerge from the former Yugoslavia.[5]

Over the course of his career, he has produced over a dozen chart-topping albums,[6] gone on several record-breaking tours,[7] won awards including the Sixth of April Sarajevo Award,[8] and authored the first national anthem of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is widely known for his distinctive voice, stage performances, and poetic lyrics.

Early life

Edin Dervišhalidović was born on 12 September 1962, in the neighborhood of Alifakovac in Sarajevo, People's Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (at the time part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia).[1] His father, Abid, was a carpenter who came to Sarajevo as a teenager. His mother, Fatima (née Činjarević), was born and raised in Sarajevo, and was a Muslim clerk.[9] His parents divorced when he was 7 years old and he was subsequently raised by his mother.[10]

Dervišhalidović attended Moris Moco Salom primary school, where he was the captain of the school's soccer, basketball, and table tennis teams. The school and its historic surroundings – Emperor's Mosque, President Tito's konak, and Hotel Nacional – influenced his later art.[1]

Dervišhalidović enrolled at Sarajevo Technical High School. During after-school hours, he performed in a music duo with his childhood friend and keyboardist Mensur Lutvica, with whom he later established the band Merlin.

Music career

Early years

Although Dervišhalidović's mother was against the idea of her son being a musician, she helped him buy his first guitar when he was 12 years old.[11] He penned his first song at 14 years old. Dervišhalidović was mostly self-taught, although he did take a few lessons from an older neighbor named Mirsad. Mirsad's younger brother, Mensur Lutvica, played the keyboard and attended the same school as Dervišhalidović. They soon became friends and eventually became the founding members of the later band 'Merlin'. Lutvica began accompanying Dervišhalidović while performing on the streets of Sarajevo.

Dervišhalidović was heavily influenced by the Yugoslavian musicians Bijelo Dugme, Zdravko Čolić, Kemal Monteno, and Toma Zdravković, among others.[12] He entered several music competitions covering their songs. He later became close friends with Goran Bregović, the founder and primary songwriter of Bijelo Dugme.

After enrolling in university, Dervišhalidović formed a band with Lutvica on keyboard, Amir "Tula" Bjelanović on guitar, Džafer Saračević on drums, and Enver Milišić on bass guitar. Each of the five put a paper with their idea for a band name in a hat; the name "Merlin" was pulled and chosen as the name of the band.[13]

Merlin

After completing his first semester at university, Dervišhalidović dropped out to pursue a music career. However, he did not have enough money to rent a recording studio. During this time, he married his girlfriend Amela and worked two shifts a day at a metal factory in the suburbs of Sarajevo for a few years.[14] It was during this time that he started writing most of the songs which would later appear on his first album.

In 1984, Dervišhalidović rented a local studio in Sarajevo owned by producer Brano Likić. All of the songs recorded were written by Dervišhalidović and the fees of the recording were paid from his funds. He was rejected by every major record label in Sarajevo. At the same time, Dervišhalidović's private funds were only enough for 6 songs. During the recording session for the final song, a local A&R agent named Muradif Brkić entered the studio where Dervišhalidović and Likić were mixing a song. After listening to the track, "Kokuzna Vremena", a couple of times, Brkić offered Dervišhalidović a contract with his record label Sarajevo Disk and agreed to finance the remainder of the song recordings. Eventually, Merlin was able to release their first album, Kokuzna vremena, in 1985.[15] With the band, Dervišhalidović has recorded 5 studio albums: Kokuzna vremena in 1985, Teško meni sa tobom in 1986, Merlin in 1987, Nešto lijepo treba da se desi in 1989, and Peta strana svijeta in 1990.

Solo career

Dervišhalidović in 2008.

Dervišhalidović began his solo career under the name Dino Merlin in 1991 and has since recorded six studio albums: Moja bogda sna in 1993, Fotografija in 1995, Sredinom in 2000, Burek in 2004, Ispočetka in 2008, and Hotel Nacional in 2014.

During the Bosnian War, several members of Merlin were killed, including their long-time manager Kemal Bisić, with whom Dervišhalidović was close.[16]

Not long after the band dissolved, Dervišhalidović was invited by the Bosnian state government to write the country's first-ever national anthem "Jedna si jedina". The song acted as the state's national anthem until the late 1990s.[17] In 1993, he wrote the song "Sva bol svijeta" ("All the grief in the world") for and eventually participated in Bosnia's first Eurovision Song Contest in Millstreet in 1993.[18] The song is about the hardships Bosnians endured during the war and calls for peace. He again participated in the Eurovision Song Contests in Jerusalem in 1999 (singing "Putnici" with Béatrice Poulot, a French singer) and in 2011 with "Love in Rewind".[18] Dervišhalidović has also taken part in other big European festivals, such as the Copenhagen festival in 1996 and the Turkovision Song Contest in 1997.[19]

2000-2013

Dervišhalidović performing at Eurovision Song Contest 2011.

In 2000, aged 38, Dervišhalidović released his most successful album to date -Sredinom ("Middle"). The album was a top-selling album in Bosnia and Herzegovina and was sold in all of the former Yugoslav republics.[20]

The album became a classic and was the highest-selling album of the region in 30 years. Some estimates put the album sales at about 2,000,000.[21]

The subsequent tour promoting Sredinom included over 200 concerts with a performance at the Koševo City Stadium in Sarajevo in front of an audience of about 80,000. This was the largest crowd ever to assemble in the national stadium in Bosnia's history.[21] Dervišhalidović subsequently performed three more times at this stadium and is the only artist ever to have filled this venue on four occasions.

2014-present

After a six-year hiatus, Dervišhalidović returned to the stage with his eleventh album Hotel Nacional.[22] It was released in June 2014 and was featured in the top 10 on the Billboard World Albums list upon release due to unprecedented online sales in the region.[23][24] This is the only album from Slavic-speaking Europe ever to chart on Billboard. The album featured Yoad Nevo, Richard Niles, Hüsnü Şenlendirici, and others.[22] 700,000 people attended The Hotel National World Tour across 4 continents. It is the largest tour ever to have been produced by an artist from Southeast Europe.[25]

Dervišhalidović released his song "Mi" in October 2019, followed by "Dođi" at the start of 2021, and two more songs ("Mir svim dobrim ljudima" and "Jedan dan, jedna noć") in May.[26]

Personal life

Dervišhalidović resides in his hometown of Sarajevo, in the same house and street where he was born and raised, in the neighborhood of Alifakovac. He has two children, Naida[27] and Hamza.[28]

Dervišhalidović is an avid chess player, skier, art collector, and reader. He also owns a record label and store in the center of Sarajevo, in Baščaršija.

Philanthropy

Dervišhalidović is an active donor to scholarships for underprivileged children in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is a long-time member of the Hastor Foundation, the biggest organization of its kind devoted to distributing scholarships to students in the country. Dervišhalidović acts as a sponsor to over a dozen students every year and has been a member of this program since 2008.[29]

Dervišhalidović worked for five years pro bono as the honorary and de facto president of the assembly of AMUS, the main association of music artists of Bosnia.[30] He was one of the founding members of the organization in 2013.[31] In early 2018, he resigned from his position due to the lack of time to do the work.[30]

He has played numerous charity concerts. During the 2014 Southeast Europe floods, Dervišhalidović's team was heavily involved in humanitarian work, distributing water, food, blankets and other provisions to the most endangered parts of Bosnia and Serbia.[32][33]

In 2013, Dervišhalidović was awarded the International Humanitarian Award in Urfa, Turkey.[34]

Discography

Albums

Merlin

Solo

Compilation

  • The Best of Dino Merlin (2001)

DVDs

  • Live Koševo 2004 (2005)
  • Koševo 19. Juli (2009)
  • Beograd 2011 (2016)
  • Hotel Nacional - Koševo 2015 (2016)

Blu-rays

Singles

Tours

  • Kokuzna vremena - Yugoslavian tour (1985–1986)
  • Teško meni sa tobom - Yugoslavian tour (1986–1987)
  • Nešto lijepo treba da se desi - European tour (1988–1989)
  • Fotografija - Balkan tour (1997–1998)
  • Sredinom - World tour (2000–2003)
  • Burek - World tour (2004–2007)
  • Ispočetka - World tour (2008–11)
  • Hotel Nacional - World tour (2014–2019)

References

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  30. ^ a b "Dino Merlin i Sejo Sekson posjetili Valentina Inzka". N1 (in Bosnian). 18 March 2021. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
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Preceded by Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Eurovision Song Contest
(with Béatrice Poulot)
1999
Succeeded by
Preceded by Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Eurovision Song Contest
2011
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