A Superior Sevdah

The most beautiful Bosnian sevdah…
In class this season we sing the lovely song “Kad Ja Podjoh,” a Bosnian sevdah (sevdalinka). My version can’t hold a candle to the one in this video. Like many sevdahs, “Kad Ja Podjoh” is ancient and of unclear origin, though, also like many sevdahs in this historically multi-ethnic part of the world, it shares a melody with a song by Sephardic Jews.

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