Weekly Music Video

Today's video is GADJE by German born, Kosovar-Albanian singer Dhurata Dora and Albanian singer Elvana Gjata. They teamed up for the single back in 2022. The two singers also worked together again for the song LUJ, last year.

Dhurata released her debut studio album DHURATA in March 2023. Her most recent singles are PALMA featuring Austrian rapper and singer RAF Camora, which came out last July and LEJ with Kosovo-Albanian rapper Don Xhoni, released in December.

Elvana's most recent releases are the 2021 EP Çelu and the single Pak, released in July 2023. She also just brought out the song HANA from the new Albanian film 2 Gisht Mjaltë 2 (sequel l to 2019's 2 Gisht Mjaltë).

GADJE is an Albanian language pop song (with the English line) with dance vibes. It was released in June 2022 but I only came across it recently.

Dhurata and/or Elvana fan? Check out these links:

LUJ, their most recent song together, which features on Dhurata's album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj56LP-YpNY

Dhurata:

Music video for Mi Amor feat. Noizy (2021): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/11/weekly-music-video.html

PALMA feat. RAF Camora (2023): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo_EF-UIY0Y

LEJ, with Don Xhoni (released in December): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gJhIl4pdc

Elvana:

Me tana (audio; 2020): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2020/06/weekly-music-video_24.html

Pak (2023): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvihtNxEn6o

HANA (released yesterday/5th March): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qDhRyez1So

Plus, check out these posts for more Kosovar/Albanian music:

Albanian music feature: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2016/09/albanian-music.html

Butrint Imeri and Era Istrefi (released last November): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2024/01/weekly-music-video_10.html

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