Ljiljana Buttler

Ljiljana Buttler (née Petrović; 14 December 1944 – 26 April 2010) was a Yugoslav-Romani folk singer comparable to Esma Redžepova, Vida Pavlović, and Šaban Bajramović.
Buttler was born Ljiljana Petrović on 14 December 1944 in Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia during World War II. Her father was a Romani accordionist from Serbia, while her mother was Ljiljana Petrović, a Croatian singer from Zagreb. Her father left the family shortly after the birth of his daughter. Petrović moved to the city of... plus