About Halid Beslic Halid Bešlić (20 November 1953) is a Bosnian folk musician and singer who has been performing since 1979. Bešlić is enormously popular all throughout the Balkans and the Bosnian diaspora. Bešlić was always active in music and performed at school and at his hometown cultural manifestations. After serving a mandatory stint in the Yugoslav National Army, Bešlić moved to Sarajevo and began to perform in restaurants and after several years of rising popularity he recorded his first album in 1979. Since then Bešlić has recorded almost 20 albums and staged hundreds of concerts. During the 1992–1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina Bešlić staged more than 500 humanitarian concerts across Europe. Bešlić has earned many awards and much financial success from his singing. Among his business interests is a gas station in the outskirts of Sarajevo. On 10 March 2009, Bešlić left his gas station around 04:00 and ran his Škoda Superb off the road, possibly due to icy conditions on the road. Bešlić who was not wearing a seat belt and suffered serious injuries to his face and right eye, initially being in a coma. Attempts to save his eye were undertaken in hospitals in Bosnia, Turkey and Belgium however they were all ultimately unsuccessful.. He has since recovered and held two concerts in Zagreb at the end of October 2009.