Haris Džinović sings at the Pula Arena on August 14, 2026, in the first-century Roman amphitheatre, starting at 9 pm. For a singer who spent half his life between the kafana song and the silence of emigration, that is a stage with a weight few in this region ever get.

Džinović was born on September 26, 1951 in Sarajevo, into the family of an engineer and an economist. Before music he played football, for Sarajevo's Željezničar, but music won. He recorded his first single in 1975, with the songs „Domovina” and „Želim tebe”, and in 1981 founded the band Šar el Roma, with which he released three albums between 1982 and 1986. Hits like „I tebe sam sit kafano”, „Kako mi nedostaješ”, „Laže mjesec” and „Muštuluk” became standard repertoire for an entire generation across former Yugoslavia.

When the war in Bosnia began, Džinović first went to Austria, then to France, where he ran a restaurant in Paris and, as he says himself, did music for his own soul. That is a biography that explains a great deal about the way he sings. His songs are not attempts at virtuosity; they are a conversation with a man sitting across from you, and that is exactly why they work equally in a packed hall and in an empty restaurant.

The Arena in Pula is a space rarely given over to a pop concert of this kind, and that is part of the point of the event. Tickets are sold through entrio.hr. For an audience from Macedonia spending the summer on the Adriatic, this is a date worth putting in the diary, because Džinović concerts in settings like this are becoming rarer.