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Esma Redžepova-Teodosievska ((マケドニア語:Есма Реџепова-Теодосиевска) ) (born 8 August 1943) is a Yugoslav and later Macedonian vocalist, songwriter, and humanitarian of Romani ethnicity. Because of her prolific repertoire, which includes hundreds of songs, and because of her contribution to Roma culture and its promotion, she is nicknamed Queen of the Gypsies. She started to sing while she was a teenager in the 1950s, and her career spans over five decades. Her musical success is closely linked to her marriage with Stevo Teodosievski, who was a composer, arranger and director of a musical ensemble, the ''Ansambl Teodosievski''. He wrote many of her songs and fully managed her career until his death in 1997. Her musical style is mostly inspired by traditional Roma and Macedonian music. Some other influences are also noticeable, such as pop music. Esma Redžepova started her career at a period when Romani music was very denigrated in Yugoslavia and Roma people considered it shameful for women to sing in public. Redžepova was one of the first singers to sing in Romani language on radio and television. Redžepova is particularly noted for her powerful and emotional voice. In 2010, she was cited among the 50 great voices in the world by NPR, a prominent American media organization. Redžepova is also noted for her extravagant attires and her turbans, as well as the use she makes of typical stereotypes about Roma women, such as sensuality and happiness. In 2010, she was awarded the Macedonian Order of Merit, and she was entitled ''National Artist of the Republic of Macedonia'' in 2013 by the Macedonian President, Gjorgje Ivanov. With her late husband Stevo Teodosievski she has fostered forty-seven children, and has received numerous accolades for her humanitarian work. She supports Roma and women rights and is also involved in local politics in her hometown, Skopje. Redžepova, together with Vlatko Lozanoski, represented Macedonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö, Sweden.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Esma & Vlatko are the choice of FYR Macedonia )〕 ==Early life and background== Redžepova was born on 8 August 1943 in Skopje, 20 Ivo Lola Ribar street. At that time, Skopje was occupied by the Kingdom of Bulgaria, allied to Nazi Germany,〔Bulgaria During the Second World War, Marshall Lee Miller, Stanford University Press, 1975, ISBN 0804708703, p. 128.〕 although the region was returned to Yugoslavia just two years later. She is the second youngest of six children in a Romani family. Her paternal grandfather was a Catholic Roma, and her grandmother an Iraqi Jew, while her mother was a Muslim Roma from a village close to Skopje.〔''Damin Gambit'' TV Show, HRT, April 2014〕 Her father, who had lost a leg during a German bombing in Skopje in 1941, worked variously as a porter, circus strongman and shoeshiner. He sang and played drums and he sometimes performed at weddings.〔 Some of Esma's siblings accompanied him. Esma's mother was a seamstress.〔 At age nine Esma was introduced by one of her brothers to a local Romani music organisation, where she was able to quickly learn complicated rhythms. Her mother encouraged her musical gifts and Esma and her brother soon joined their school's folklore group. Her parents insisted that all their children finish primary school.〔 However, they had very traditional views and expected Esma to get married in her teens and become a housewife. Nonetheless, their daughter was emancipated and would wear fashionable dresses instead of ''dimije'', the traditional attire for Romani girls at that time. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Esma Redžepova」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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