Steven Wagner - Stevan Vagner, Podrum COLLEGIUM MELODIUM, World music museum in BELGRADE Fabulous The PILERS / PILEROVI / and Vlada BABOVICH, present, Silvana (Zilha) Armenulić maiden Bajraktarević, born on 18 May 1939 in Doboj. She was the third of ten children confectioners Mehmed Bajraktarević. With šesnaset years went to live with her aunt in Sarajevo and began to sing in pubs.
Art name Silvana took the then-popular actress Silvana Mangano, whose film "Bitter Rice" especially loved.
She was a singer of newfangled folk songs and traditional songs. His archive footage sevdalinkas she recorded for the archives of Radio Belgrade sixties. His appearance, way of dressing and songs made a big change in folk music. The song "What will my life" Toma Zdravkovic, sung in the TV series "Love on the rural way," became a huge hit, and the same name plates, issued by Zagreb "PGP" was sold at that time in a whopping 300,000 copies.
In 1961 she married the famous Yugoslav players Radmila armenulic, with whom he had a daughter in 1964 Gordan.
She died on October 10th 1976 in a car accident on the highway Belgrade-Nis, near the town of Kolari. Together with her was killed and her sister Mirjana (Mirsada) Bajraktarević and Rade Jasarevic, head of the National Orchestra of RT Belgrade, who was driving the car
