Jala Brat

Jasmin Fazlić Jala

Jala in 2016
Background information
Birth name Jasmin Fazlić
Also known as
  • Jala
  • Jala Brat
Born (1986-10-16) 16 October 1986
Genres
Occupation(s) Rapper
Years active 2010-now
Labels Imperia & Young King
Associated acts
Website http://jala-brat.com

Jasmin Fazlić (born 16 October 1986), better known by his stage names Jala or Jala Brat, is a Bosnian rapper. He represented Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 together with Dalal Midhat-Talakić, Deen and Ana Rucner. He is the co-author of the 2016 Bosnian Eurovision entry "Ljubav je".[1] He performed the song during the first semi-final of the competition on May 10, 2016, but failed to qualify to the May 14 final.

He is the founder member of hip-hop group BluntBylon from Sarajevo and co-founder of the music studio Red Eye Vision in Vogošća. He's mostly known for his work alongside Bosnian rapper Buba Corelli, with whom he has over 30 songs, including two albums (Pakt s Đavolom and Kruna) and one EP (SA Sin City).

In the summer of 2016, Jala announced he would run as a candidate for the Bosniak nationalist Party of Democratic Action (SDA) in Bosnia's 2016 municipal elections.[2]

Beginning of the career

Jala started making rap music in 2004 at his improvised house-studio. Later, he formed a Hip hop group Bluntbylon with Smayla and several other members. Their career started mostly on YouTube. He also made a few solo-works at that period. In 2011, he released his first EP Replay, on which his first song with Buba Corelli appeared.

2012 works

In 2012 he released his first solo album Riječ na riječ. He also released EP Mahala with Shtela. He also started making album Lice Ulice, but it is still unfinished yet. In 2012 two singles were released, (Lice Ulice and Uzeću vam sve). In 2015, Dom, the third single from album was released, revealing that the project is not canceled but only paused. Also, in 2012 Jala, alongside Buba Corelli, started releasing singles from EP SA Sin City. There were 5 singles released, and EP was fully completed in 2013.

Pakt s Đavolom alongside Buba Corelli

In 16 November 2014, the first single from the album, Bez Tebe, was released. Full album was released in 13 December 2014, following three singles (22, Trindidad & Tobago and Borba). The album gained huge succes and Jala and Corelli were the most listened rappers in Bosnia and Herzegovina at that time.

Commercial rap career

Following the success of Pakt s Đavolom, in 2015 both Jala and Buba Corelli started to make their music more commercial and less underground as they used to. In 6 September Jala released a single Casino marking his way to commercial career. Unfortunately, Buba Corelli was jailed during that time, and Jala continiued to make music without him until the end of Eurovision when Corelli was released. During Corelli's time in jail, Jala released a single Dom from album Lice Ulice that was dedicated to Corelli and 3 other rappers who were jailed alongside him. Although he wasn't singing turbo-folk himself, he made several works with turbo-folk artists Dado Polumenta (Dominantna), Maya Berović (To me radi, with Buba Corelli as a co-star) and Mile Kitić's daughter, Elena. In 28 July 2016, Elena released her first official song Folira where Jala was a co-star.

Kruna alongside Buba Corelli

In October 2016, both Jala and Buba Corelli announced that they will publish new album "Kruna". Album contains 8 singles. It was more commercial than their last albums, and most of the songs don't include both Jala and Buba. Only two singles, Klinka and Ne Volim (featuring Elena) were made by both of them. 3 singles, Comfort, Sporije and Dokaz were made by Buba Corelli only, and rest of them, Restart, La Martina and Bakšiš were made by Jala. The album used advanced technology, with 6 out of 8 singles published with 4K videos, and two lyrics videos.

Collaboration with other rappers

Since 2011 Jala was mostly collaborating with Bosnian underground rappers that were mostly popular at that time. Besides Buba Corelli, he was known for his work with his colleagues from Bluntbylon, with Smayla as most popular one. He was also working with Buba Corelli's group G recordz and their members. Besides that, he made several songs with rappers Klijent and Anći and also members of the Sarajevo groups Treća Smjena Crew, Capital City Crew and Dlan Beats. In 2012 he was working with one of the biggest Bosnian rappers, Frenkie, with whom he released music video Ne odustajem for the song of the same name from Riječ na Riječ. He later made several works with Serbian Juice who was also his guest on Pakt s Đavolom.

Discography

Studio albums and extended plays:

References

  1. ↑ Leon, Jakov I.; Jordan, Paul (19 February 2016). "Dalal, Deen, Ana & Jala sing 'Ljubav je' for Bosnia & Herzegovina!". eurovision.tv. European Broadcasting Union. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
  2. ↑ http://www.vecernji.ba/kandidati-na-izborima-glumci-pjevaci-glazbenici-nogometasi-1100191
Preceded by
Maya Sar
with "Korake ti znam"		 Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Eurovision Song Contest
2016
(with Dalal, Deen and Ana Rucner) 		Incumbent
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