Aida Baraku feat Hashim Shala & Tahir Drenica video
"Leze leze"

Hashim Shala, a great folk singer, was featured in this weeks program "Pa skenar" broadcasted Tuesday nights by RTK and hosted by Antigona Qena - Kacaniku (daughter of the famous kosovar artist Muharrem Qena). Among other things, Antigona asked Hashim about the controversial song that he and Aida Baraku did together way back a decade ago or so (not really sure when was this song done). The script of the song was very advanced for the time when it was done and with whom it was done and Antigona asked whether he regretted doing such a song. Hashim replied that he had doubts at the time, fearing that some may see it as tasteless thing to do or scandalous and if asked he said he would never do it again, however he never regretted doing it in the first place because, despite all, the song achieved a tremendous success. Probably one of the most successful "marriages" between two music genres, pop and folk, ever made in Kosova and perhaps beyond. Aida Baraku, otherwise a very successful scriptwriter, composer (together with her husband Armend Rexhepagiqi) and journalist, has not been seen much singing in public after the war in Kosova in 1999, especially in the recent years.

p.s. Unfortunately, they only broadcasted half of the song so we had to replicate the second half of the video, hence you'll see the video does not match the voice. But, hey... so far, this is the best you can get. It would be great if someone has the full video of this song. Great song by the way!