However, he did not have enough money to enter a recording studio. First album, period of struggle Īfter completing his first semester at university, Dino soon dropped out in order to pursue a music career. Each of the five put a paper with their idea for a band name in a hat the name "Merlin" was the first to be pulled out of the hat, which they named the band. He would later even become close friends with Goran Bregovic, the founder and primary songwriter of Bijelo Dugme.Īfter enrolling in university, Dino formed a band, with Mensur on keyboards, Amir "Tula" Bjelanović on guitar, Džafer Saračević on drums and Enver Milišić on bass guitar. He entered several music competitions covering the songs of the aforementioned artists. Mensur began accompanying Dino while performing on the streets of Sarajevo.ĭino was heavily influenced by the Yugoslavian musicians Bijelo Dugme, Zdravko Čolić, Kemal Monteno, Toma Zdravković, among others. They soon became best friends and eventually became the founding members of the later band 'Merlin'. Mirsad's younger brother, Mensur Lutvica, played the keyboard and attended the same school as Dino. Dino was mostly selftaught although he did take a couple lessons from an older neighbour called Mirsad. He penned his first song at 14 years old. After learning his first chords, Dino began writing his own melodies and lyrics. Music career Early years Īlthough Dino's mother was against the idea of her son being a musician, she did help Dino buy his first guitar when he was 12 years old. After school hours, he performed in a music duo with his childhood friend and keyboard player Mirsad Lutvica with whom he later established the band "Merlin". On his mother's insistence, and contrary to his own wishes of attending music school, Dino enrolled into the Sarajevo Technical High School. The school and its historic surroundings - Emperor's Mosque, President Tito's residence Konak and Hotel Nacional, all influenced his later art. ĭino attended the historic Moris Moco Salom elementary school where he was very active as a child, captaining its soccer, basketball and table tennis teams. His parents divorced when he was 7 years old and he was subsequently raised by his mother. His mother, Fatima (née Činjarević), born and raised in Sarajevo, was a Muslim cleric. Dino's father Abid was a carpenter who came to Sarajevo as a teenager. The Dervišhalidović family traces its origins to Novi Pazar. 2.5 Current success, Billboard recognitionĮdin Dervišhalidović was born on 12 September 1962, in the historic neighbourhood of Alifakovac in Sarajevo, Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was a republic of Yugoslavia.
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