Halid Bešlić
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Halid Bešlić (Bosnian pronunciation: [xǎːlid bɛ̂ʃlitɕ]; 20 November 1953 – 7 October 2025) was a Bosnian folk singer and musician whose career spanned nearly five decades. Renowned for his distinctive baritone voice and emotive delivery, he became one of the most influential and best-selling performers in the former Yugoslavia and throughout the Balkans. Rising to prominence in the early 1980s with the albums Sijedi starac (1981), Pjesma samo o njoj (1982) and Dijamanti... (1984), Bešlić developed a devoted following across the Balkans and among the Bosnian diaspora. He released more than a dozen studio albums and performed widely across Europe and North America. During the Bosnian War, Bešlić organized and took part in numerous humanitarian concerts for displaced persons and war victims. In 2009, he survived a serious car crash that left him with lasting injuries but continued to perform and record in the following years. Bešlić's work is regarded as an important contribution to Bosnian musical and cultural heritage, and he remained a regional cultural icon until his death in Sarajevo in 2025.