Esma Redzepova

When Esma Redzepova or Redjepova and her bandleader, mentor, and husband, Stevo Teodosievski were crowned "Queen and King of Gypsy (Romany) music" at the first World Festival of Romany Songs and Music in 1976, it marked the pinnacle of a very successful musical career. The product of a Rom (gypsy) Muslim and Jewish family, Redzepova is the daughter of a Serbian father and Turkish mother. Although ...more