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Demir Krasniqi
}}Demir Krasniqi (born 10 June 1950) is from the village of Tugjec near Kamenica, Kosovo. He went to school locally but studied music in secondary school and university in Pristina. His main mentor from early on in his schooling was the teacher Rexhep Bunjaku. In sixth grade, he took first place at a regional music competition known as “Mikrofoni është i Juaji” ("The Microphone Is Yours").
He worked as a music teacher in Kosovo schools, as he still does today.
He has written, composed, and recorded 1,500 original songs and dances on vinyl, cassettes, video, CD, and DVD. He collects folk songs as well, including over 4,000 in his repertoire, many of them collected by Lorenc Antoni in volumes IV-VII of his collection ''Bleni muzikor shqiptar''.
Krasniqi is also a journalist, and currently lives and works in Gjilan. Provided by Wikipedia
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