Ndue Shyti was born in the village of Gojan in the province of Mirdita (Pukë district), virtuoso instrumentalist of the couplet, whistle and sharkia, innovator and creator of popular formations with traditional instruments, People’s Artist. Ndue Shyti enriched the musical repertoire of the couplet, created by Gjin Shkoza, by creating a more complicated technique of use, rich in musical figurations elaborated on the principles of free variations, bringing new emotions to its sound. Ndue Shyti is also a whistle instrumentalist and creator of a specific repertoire for that instrument. Together with the construction master Frano Pali, they managed to build the instrumental formation of the Puka district, harmonizing musical instruments that used to play only solo repertoire and that could not be disciplined. His experience in the last decades spread throughout the northern districts of Albania. He has participated in a series of tours of the State Ensemble of Folk Songs and Dances (Tirana) and the “Puka” and “Dajti” ensembles in different countries of the world. He passed away in 2017. (In the photo: Ndue Shyti)
Text: Albanian encyclopedic dictionary – Vol. 3, Academy of Sciences of Albania, “Kristalina-KH”, Tirana, 2009, page 2649.
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