{"id":12216,"date":"2016-12-11T14:13:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T13:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/?post_type=kortnieuws&#038;p=12216"},"modified":"2016-12-11T20:13:10","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T19:13:10","slug":"esma-redzepova-plots-overleden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/ex-deelnemers\/esma-redzepova-plots-overleden\/","title":{"rendered":"ESMA Red\u017eepova suddenly died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #D49D6E; font-weight: bold;\" class=\"post-p-lead\">* Automatically translated *<\/p>\n<p>Celebrated singer Esma Red\u017eepova is at the age of 73 after a short illness. Gypsy Queen ESMA, &#8216; music &#8216;, represented Macedonia (FYR) in the Eurovision Song Contest from 2013, along with singer Lozano. Despite missing the grand final was the participation of Esma is very important in the Balkan region. She was, in fact, a very large icon.<\/p>\n<p>ESMA was hospitalized in november with a persistent <strong>pneumonia<\/strong>. After a while, she was released from the hospital to recover at home, but the infection was her eventually fatal. With the death of Esma Red\u017eepova loses the Balkans an important icon. The in Skopje born singer started her career in 1956. They should occur around the world and on the very first Gypsy World Festival in India, she was elected to become the<strong> &#8216; Queen of Gypsy music &#8216;<\/strong>. During her music career, she recorded more than 500 songs and sold millions of CDs. In addition, she also acted in several films. The late singer was also a political activist and ran several times in the viewer with her humanitarian projects. So they <strong>adopted<\/strong> around 47 children. They also came on for women&#8217;s rights.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sad to learn about the passing of Esma Red\u017eepova, who participated in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Eurovision?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Eurovision<\/a> 2013. Our condolences to her loved ones and fans<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jon Ola Sand (@jonolasand) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonolasand\/status\/807896392542851073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 11, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It was also big news when in the Balkans than in 2013 was announced that she and Lozano would represent Macedonia in the Eurovision Song Contest in Malm\u00f6. Their original entry was called <strong><em>Imperija<\/em><\/strong>. After the publication there were a lot of negative reactions to the song and clip for example, places and monuments to see were those according to the Greeks to them accessories. Eventually came up with the song Esma and Lozano <strong><em>Pred da se radzden<\/em><\/strong>. The messy song could not convince and eventually ended up Macedonia in their semi-final on the 16th place with 28 points. In Western Europe the colorful appearance of Esma went quietly, but in the Balkans they saw how one of their greatest singers ever fell on the Eurovision song contest.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube\" data-embed=\"Vi1VYsOUCsY\" data-time=\"0\">\n<div class=\"play-button\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"play-button\" alt=\"play\" src=\"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/wp-content\/themes\/songfestival\/img\/play.svg\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gypsy Queen ESMA, &#8216; music &#8216;, represented Macedonia in the Eurovision Song Contest from 2013, along with singer Lozano. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[847,594,2766,686,2764,2765,2763,227,2770,2767,1635,1743,2771,2768,2769,291],"class_list":["post-12216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ex-deelnemers","tag-balkanmuziek","tag-dead","tag-dies","tag-dood","tag-esma","tag-esma-lozano","tag-esma-redzepova","tag-fyr-macedonia","tag-imperija","tag-infection","tag-macedonia","tag-overleden","tag-pred-da-se-radzden","tag-queen-of-gypsys","tag-skopje","tag-woman"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["nl","fr","en"],"languages":{"nl":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"fr":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}