In Ottoman Turkish sevda doesn't simply mean black bile; it also refers to a state of being in love, and more specifically to the intense and forlorn longing associated with lovesickness and unrequited love.
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Sevdalinkas were re-recorded by Josipa Lisac (she recorded the song "Omer beže"), Željko Bebek ("Da zna zora"), Ibrica Jusić, who recorded two albums of sevdalinkas: Amanet (2003), and Amanet 2 (2008), Jadranka Stojaković, Toše Proeski and Zdravko Čolić or taken as a basis for few songs by Johnny Štulić (his band Azra was named after a verse from a sevdalinka song).
Mostar Sevdah Reunion is a world-fusion musical ensemble from Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina playing almost exclusively sevdalinka fused with contemporary musical styles.
Zehra Deović (born 1938) is a Bosnian sevdalinka singer and was one of the leading female singers of the 1960s and 1970s in Yugoslavia, along with Silvana Armenulić, Nada Mamula and Beba Selimović.