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Musician: Téa Hodzic
Location: London
Instruments: voice, guitar
Music: Balkan
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HOW I CAME TO THIS MUSICÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýWHERE I PLAYÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýA FAVOURITE SONG |
  
Listen to Tea and fellow-refugees perform with Eliza Carthy at
This story includes material from Celebrating Sanctuary: Conversations with
Refugee Artists
(London Arts, 2002) |
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 ÌýÌýListen (4'55) to Sonja sung by Téa Hodzic
ÌýÌýListen (37'41) to Téa, Vanya - Bronislav Krawczyk and Dylan Fowler showcasing at the World On Your Street tent, WOMAD 2002
ÌýÌýListen (31'04) to Téa playing with Romany Rad playing at WOMAD 2002
'...I didn’t have a clue that the war would happen. It was nice living there - as far as I was concerned everyone was equal...'
How I came to this music:
I left Sarajevo in 1989, before the war started and so as far as I remember, Sarajevo was just fine. Anyway I didn’t have a clue that the war would happen. It was nice living there - as far as I was concerned everyone was equal, I had friends from all the communities.
I sing with my sister Mirella, and we’ve been singing together for 25 years. We started singing as children and did our first professional gig when I was 12. At that time we sang pop music, though both my sister and I were trained at music school in classical guitar and in opera singing later on at secondary music school.
My parents are in Education there, both professors. They were always very supportive of our musical careers, but at the same time they are very down to earth people. So whether we were singing pop or working with the National Theatre, they always presented it to us as the most ordinary of things, you know - it’s just a way of earning pocket money, that’s all. So I never saw it as stardom, as such.
 But yes - we had hit records; we were on television and radio regularly; we were touring and playing with musicians who were very famous over there. And we were quite well known too -everybody knew about us in Sarajevo and in Bosnia as well. We also sang in other parts of Yugoslavia, but we were not as famous there. Our pop band performed a few 30 - 45 minute specials for TV and we were guests on other pop shows quite regularly. With the National Theatre we did some music theatre recitals and we performed music for some of the plays. It was good ... but I never think about it now.
My sister and I both graduated: she as a doctor and me as an architect. It’s funny, but I guess it’s our mentality back home - you see singing as something you do for pleasure, but you have to secure your future with something more solid, like becoming a lawyer or a doctor.
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