I listen to a lot of Balkan music, specifically Serbian/Bosnian but I also like Albanian and Greek music. The communist-era folklore of Albania (which Ilia Basho and some other still sing today) is very similar to Assyrian music, and is Yugoslav music, especially anything sung by a Bosnian or Serbs from Bosnia. Even the foods are very similar to ours. The Greek music I listen to is mostly pop or soft rock, especially Panos Kiamos or sometimes Xristina Koletsa (although most guys listen to her for her looks and not her songs). With regards to Romani, there was a guy in Bulgaria named Amet who sang in the Romani language. There was another guy but he wasn't as good as as Amet. Muharem Serbezovski is an accomplished musician in the Yugoslav language and is Romani. However, Ja?ar Ahmedovski is my favorite Yugoslav singer and was born in La?ani near Prilep in Macedonia, and his parents were from Sand?ak in southern Serbia from a village near Novi Pazar just north of Kosovo-Metohija. His late brother Ip?e Ahmedovski was perhaps the greatest narodna muzika singer ever before his untimely death at age 28 in 1994 during a spree of unexplained deaths of people who had cooperated with the communist regime in the aftermath of Marshal Tito's death, and not surprisingly Macedonians were chosen for positions early in the 80's.
