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Dragi Šestić
Dragi Šestić (born 14 May 1966) is a Bosnian music producer, sound engineer, director of music video clips and record label owner.
In 1998 he founded the first Bosnian World Music band, Mostar Sevdah Reunion. He rediscovered almost forgotten Gypsy music legends from ex-Yugoslavia Šaban Bajramović and Ljiljana Buttler-Petrović and brought them into the spotlight of the international World Music scene.
Šestić was born in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
He worked with the famous maqaam (Maqam al-iraqi
problems due to their absence. "Geljan dade" was covered by a wide range of musicians from varying genres, including Gru, Muharem Serbezovski and Boban Zdravković. Zdravković performed the first known version of the song in Serbian, titled "Prokleta je Amerika".
In 2005, Miloš Stojanović and Dragi Šestić directed his biopic film, titled "Šaban", which gained notoriety in Eastern Europe. For the purposes of that documentary Dragi Šestić produced the album for Snail Records with the title "Saban" -which has been on