The news website Sakam da kazam reported that she died Sunday in Skopje, citing family members.
She started singing in the 1950s and was active almost to the end. Redžepova was the leading voice of her husband Stevo Teodosievski’s ensemble, which performed Roma and Macedonian folk music.
Before Redžepova’s success, Roma music was excluded from Yugoslavian radio, but Redžepova and Teodosievski changed perceptions of it. Nevertheless, they also faced prejudice from within the Roma community, from those angry she had married a non-Roma Macedonian.
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