{"id":6725,"date":"2026-04-07T00:19:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T00:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/2023\/10\/11\/vace-zela\/---2ee62802-f559-499d-a3f1-5e1e9e446c41"},"modified":"2026-04-07T00:19:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T00:19:25","slug":"vace-zela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/2026\/04\/07\/vace-zela\/","title":{"rendered":"Va\u00e7e Zela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On April 7, 1939 <\/strong>, Va\u00e7e Zela, singer, People&#8217;s Artist, was born in Lushnj\u00eb. She studied acting at the Higher Institute of Arts (1962). She started working as a singer in the People&#8217;s Army Estrada and then in the Tirana Estrada, where she laid the foundations as a performer of light music. In the 1st Song Festival on Radiotelevision (1962) she displayed the qualities of outstanding originality, which set the seal on all her later interpretations. In 1967, she joined the State Ensemble of Folk Songs and Dances, in Tirana, where she contributed significantly to the interpretation of folk music throughout the country. At that time, she was formed as a singer of great proportions. Va\u00e7e Zela&#8217;s vocal freedom and richness of expression, skills born and refined over years of artistic interpretation, musicality, clarity and power of voice, high artistic mastery stood out. She created a wide and rich repertoire in the field of light Albanian and foreign music, as well as folklore music, representing the highest levels and the most emancipatory spirit of song interpretation. This was especially expressed in songs such as: <i>\u201cValsi i lumturis\u00eb\u201d<\/i> (<i>\u201cWaltz of Happiness\u201d)<\/i>, <i>\u201cTr\u00ebndelin\u00eb\u201d <\/i>(\u201c<i>Trefoil<\/i>\u201d),<i>\u201cGjyshes\u201d <\/i>(\u201c<i>To Grandma<\/i>\u201d),<i>\u201cMesnat\u00eb\u201d<\/i> (<i>\u201cMidnight\u201d<\/i>), \u201cMoj e bukura More\u201d (<i>\u201cOh, my beautiful Morea\u201d<\/i>) etc. She has received some of the highest awards and medals. She was decorated with the &#8220;Honour of the Nation&#8221; Order. <i>(In the photo: Va\u00e7e Zela)<\/i>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Text:<\/strong> <i>Albanian encyclopedic dictionary &#8211; Vol. 3 <\/i>, Academy of Sciences of Albania, &#8220;Kristalina-KH&#8221;, Tirana, 2009, page 2984.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo: <\/strong>\u00a9 Albanian Telegraphic Agency&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graphic processing: <\/strong>AHCF&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 7, 1939 , Va\u00e7e Zela, singer, People&#8217;s Artist, was born in Lushnj\u00eb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ditelindje"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9224,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725\/revisions\/9224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}