36 years from known Rapsod death

Shaqa was born in Luwë, Upper Decani, in 1912, and died on April 11, 1985.

David Shaqa lived in Kosovo until 1956, but this year he had to release Kosovo due to persecution from the renowned action “weapons collection” that Yugoslavia's Internal Affairs Security at the time ( UDB against Albanians.

He and his song colleague, Demush Neziri, settled in Rasbul near Durres. It continues to express his feelings through song - the only way he could express his pain in behalf of his family and his forbidden homeland. That's what it says in the “song when I turn my back to Kosovo, we left the snow and we found... ”

Dervis Shaqa in Albania continues the tradition of singing his native history. In the lyrics of his songs followed by pairs are described as the stone towers of Dukagjin, national figures, devoted patriots, braves, warriors...

At Rasbul Dervis Shaqa, he manages to establish and lead the Rapsod group. The group in 1968 is first presented at the Gjirokastra National Folk Festival. Since this time together with his colleague, Rapsodin Demush Neziri represents a series of songs that are still known for several generations as: “CH are these things that smell”, <x2 Prokuplje Anti-Nish <X3>, “

Most of the music recordings made by Dervis Shaqa and his colleague are located in Radio Tirana's archive.

In addition to his own folk and elaborate songs, Dervis Shaqun has composed composer Tish Daija as the great “Feste song today has Albania”, which for several years has dominated its repetition at Tirana Radio Station

The people where he spent most of his life remember him as an inborn singer singing about song, not money.