''Povratka nema'' (''There Is No Return'') is the seventh studio album by Bosnian pop singer

Donna Ares Azra Kolaković (1 January 1977 – 2 October 2017), known by her stage name Donna Ares, was a Bosnian pop and pop-folk singer. Her final studio album '' Povratka nema'' was released in 2011. She died at age 40 following a three-year long battle ...

. It was released 18 October 2011 through Hayat Production.

Recording

Recording sessions for the ''There Is No Return'' took place at the Allmanah studio in

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and in Donna Ares's own recording studio Sani Records in

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. All but two of the album's songs were written exclusively by Donna Ares herself; the title song was co-written by her mother Ajka and "Vremena za nas" ("Time for Us") was co-written by Radovan Vujadinović, a Montenegrin teenager and amateur songwriter who contacted Ares through

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with the lyrics.

Singles

"Ko si ti" ("Who Are You") was the album's lead single. It was first uploaded to Ares'

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account 30 September 2011 and released officially on 3 October. The title song was the official second single on 18 October 2011.

Track listing

Personnel

Instruments

*Faruk Pačenković – backing vocals (6), *Miroslav Railić Miki – accordion (4, 9), keyboards (9) *Džavid Ljubovci – guitar (4, 5, 6, 7, 8) *Hamdija Mešić – guitar (6) *Adnan Busuladžić– clarinet (4) *Jasmin Hadžisadiković –

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(5) *

– piano (2, 6, 8)

Production and recording

*Džavid Ljubovci – arrangement (1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Povratka nema 2011 albums Donna Ares albums Hayat Production albums