The Kuraybers & Jelena Tomasevic -Djelem djelem

The Kuraybers and Jelena Tomasevic perform “Djelem Djelem“ Live at Maihaugen conference in Lillehammer 2016

Special guest at the concert : Daniel Herskedal - Bass trumpet


Trad. Romani song
Original arrangement by The Kuraybers

This song is a tribute to one of the greatest Romani songs, sung by some of the greatest singers of all times.
Lyrics are written by Žarko Jovanović in Romani language, in the year 1949, but the melody already existed among Romani people of Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania. Some say that the original melody was of a love song and that it was known during the twenties of the last century and that Žarko Jovanović adopted it and wrote lyrics of his own dedicated to Roma people. It tells about the atrocities they suffered during World War II, and about the rise of Roma people that is about to come. It was adopted as the Romani national anthem at the first world congress of Roma people in 1971 in London.


Sound: Nils Harald

Video editing: Zoran Kubura & Bojan Hadziabdic


The Kuraybers are:

Daniel Lazar (Serbia/Romania) - Violin
Almir Meskovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) - Accordion
Greg Miszczyszyn (Poland) - Accordione
Espen Wensaas (Norway) - Guitar
Bjørnar Kaldefoss Tveite (Norway) - Double Bass
Boris Iochev (USA) - Drums
Ramon Figueras Alsius (Catalonia) - Trumpet

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