Ejup "Ipče" Ahmedovski (

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and

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: Ејуп "Ипче" Ахмедовски; 6 January 1966 – 30 July 1994) was a popular Serbian and Macedonian folk singer. A younger brother of the 1980s folk singer

Jašar Ahmedovski Jašar Ahmedovski ( Macedonian and Serbian Cyrillic: Јашар Ахмедовски; born 22 December 1964) is a Serbian–Macedonian folk singer. His albums were released on numerous labels, including Jugodisk, Diskos and Grand Production ...

, Ipče frequently sung in his father's

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before he eventually moved to

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to launch his professional singing career. He recorded his first album ''Bila si devojčica godina mojih'' in 1986 with the orchestra of composers Rade Vučković and Tomica Miljić. Later, he recorded several albums with another Serbian composer Novica Urošević and in the early nineties achieved popularity in Serbia. Ahmedovski died in a car crash in 1994 on Ibarska magistrala near Šopići, crashing his speeding Mercedes into a truck.

Selected discography

*''Bila si devojčica godina mojih'' (1986) *''Činio sam čuda'' (1990) *''Luda devojka'' (1991) *''Ciganske duše'' (1993)

References

1966 births 1994 deaths Macedonian folk singers Serbian folk singers 20th-century Serbian male singers Yugoslav male singers Road incident deaths in Yugoslavia Road incident deaths in Serbia People from Prilep Municipality Serbian turbo-folk singers Macedonian folk-pop singers Serbian people of Macedonian descent {{serbia-singer-stub