Alida Hisku

Alida Hisku (born 20 June 1957) is an Albanian singer During this period, she toured various European countries with Albanian artistic tour groups. With the beginning of the fall of communism in Albania, in 1990, she fled with her two children to Germany, where she applied for political asylum.

She remarried in Germany, and gave birth to a daughter. In 2005, after 15 years, she returned for the first time to the Albanian singing scene on a show of an Albanian TV station where she sang a few songs and was voted the best singer of the 1970s. In 2009, she published an autobiography entitled Die Hofnärrin des Diktators – Von der Propaganda missbraucht, vom Publikum geliebt, von den Mächtigen verboten (The dictator's fool - abused by the propaganda, loved by the audience, forbidden by the powerful).

Publications Die Hofnärrin des Diktators – Von der Propaganda missbraucht, vom Publikum geliebt, von den Mächtigen verboten [The dictator's fool - abused by the propaganda, loved by the audience, forbidden by the powerful], ed. Annette Piechutta, Fulda Parzeller, 2009. .