Sakib "Šako" Polumenta (born 27 March 1961) is a Montenegrin pop-folk singer popular throughout the former Yugoslav republics.

Personal and early life

Polumenta was born into a

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family in

Bijelo Polje Bijelo Polje (Cyrillic script, Cyrillic: Бијело Поље, ) is a town located in the Northern Montenegro, Northern Region of Montenegro, situated along Lim (river), Lim River. It has an urban population of 12,900 (2011 census). It is the ad ...

, a municipality of northern

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(then

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). He is married with Vesna, whom he has been in a relationship for 15 years (as of 2013). He has a daughter, Rijalda (b. 1989), who married in 2012. He is the paternal uncle of well-known singer

Dado Polumenta Damir "Dado" Polumenta (born 29 August 1982) is a Montenegro, Montenegrin pop-folk recording artist. Life and career Polumenta was born into a Muslim family in Bijelo Polje, in northern Montenegro. His uncle Šako Polumenta is also a singer. In ...

, whose career he helped launch. At early stage of his career he used to sing in

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dialect which was uncommon for his homeland Montenegro but that made him gain wide popularity.

Career

He began his career in 1993. He has several housings in Podgorica, Belgrade, Ulcinj. He is often singing in the Belgrade ''splav'' (river boat) "River". He is known for combining pop music with traditional

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musical styles. Šakib becomes more famous after sex scandal where he had relationship with younger woman where media researched that she was 16 years old, at that time. It was a huge scandal where he almost lost his career as a pedophile. Later on he was published in Serbian and Montenegrin media as very sloppy singer when his rented apartment was left with garbage in front of his doors for 4 days. He began insulting his neighbours for that, but later on he cleaned the building and garbage.

Discography

;Studio albums * '' Ej, sudbino'' (1993) * '' Skitnica'' (1995) * Hej, ženo (1997) * '' Aman, aman'' (1999) * '' Od ljubavi oslepeo'' (2000) * '' Dišem za tebe'' (2002) * '' Uvijek blizu'' (2004) * '' Karta za budućnost'' (2006) * '' Sanjao sam san...'' (2008) * '' Heroj...'' (2011) * '' Sve je samo tren'' (2015) ;As featured artist * ''Gde god pođem tebi idem'' (2006) with

Stoja Stoja Novaković (; born 4 June 1972), known mononymously as Stoja ( sr-Cyrl, Стоја), is a Serbian hardcore-folk singer. Recognised as one of the most popular turbo-folk performers, Stoja is noted for her strong deep voice and often eccentr ...

on her album, ''Metak''

References

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* 1968 births Living people People from Bijelo Polje Montenegrin folk singers Grand Production artists 21st-century Montenegrin male singers 20th-century Montenegrin male singers Bosniaks of Montenegro {{Montenegro-singer-stub