{"id":7777,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/1970\/01\/01\/fatime-sokoli-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:52:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:52:44","slug":"fatime-sokoli-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/1970\/01\/01\/fatime-sokoli-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatime Sokoli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fatime Sokoli, a folk singer from Dragobia in the Tropoja district, was born in 1947. She was awarded the title \u201cMerited Artist.\u201d At the age of 10, she joined the \u201cValbona\u201d Folkloric Ensemble in her hometown. After completing her studies at the \u201cJordan Misja\u201d artistic high school, she worked as a music teacher at the 8-year school \u201cBes\u00eblidhja e Mal\u00ebsis\u00eb\u201d in the city of Bajram Curri from 1967 to 1987. She became well-known for her numerous songs with epic and lyrical content from the folklore music of the Gjakova Highlands and beyond. Fatime performed on the \u00e7iftelia (a traditional Albanian stringed instrument), delivering to the audience with her deep and melodic voice strong emotions and values. She participated in the National Festivals of Folk Songs and Dances in Gjirokastra in 1973, 1978, and 1982, where she won first and second prizes. She had an active career with numerous concerts in Kosovo, North Macedonia, Switzerland, Germany, France, Italy, Turkey, and more. Some notable parts of her repertoire are preserved in the Albanian Radio and Television Archive. Fatime Sokoli passed away in 1987. She was (posthumously) awarded the title \u201cGreat Master of Labor.\u201d (<i>In the photograph: Fatime Sokoli<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Text:<\/strong> Albanian Encyclopedic Dictionary, Vol. 3, Academy of Sciences of Albania, &#8220;Kristalina-KH&#8221;, Tirana, 2009, page 2368.<br \/><strong>Photography:<\/strong> \u00a9 https:\/\/www.teksteshqip.com\/komuniteti\/dergofoto.php?aid=3727&amp;category=allart<br \/><strong>Graphic processing:<\/strong> AHCF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatime Sokoli, a folk singer from Dragobia in the Tropoja district, was born in 1947.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ditelindje"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11304,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7777\/revisions\/11304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}