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- Born
- 1960-10-20
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Lepa Brena is a Yugoslav and Bosnian pop folk singer, actress, and businesswoman. With around 40 million sold records, she is regarded as the commercially most successful recording artist from the former Yugoslavia.
Known for
- Sale — Herself2025
- Life and Spotlight — Herself2021
- Taxi Blues — Mama Mileva (voice)2019
- The Years of the Sweet Sin — Herself2018
- Let's Make Love 3 — Lepa Brena1990
- Let's Make Love 2 — Lepa Brena1989
- Let's Fall in Love — Lepa Brena1987
- No Problem — Lepa Brena1984
- Truckers Ride Again — Lepa Brena1984
- Tight Skin — Lepa Brena1982
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- Listeners
- 36,362
- Total plays
- 939,208
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Born Fahreta Jahić in Tuzla (grew up in town Brčko of Bosnia) on October 20, 1960, Lepa Brena is arguably the most well-known and successful singer from the region of former Yugoslavia. She and her band Slatki Greh ("Sweet Sin") were the first to combine traditional Yugoslav folk music (in particular, the traditional "kolo" dance) with modern pop elements, and went on to inspire and influence an entire generation of musicians. Songs such as "Mile voli disko" (1982) <a href="https://www.last.fm/m
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Key facts
- Born
- Fahreta Jahić , ( 1960-10-20 ) 20 October 1960 (age 65) , Tuzla , SR Bosnia and Herzegovina , SFR Yugoslavia
- Other name
- Fahreta Živojinović
- Occupations
- Singer actress talent manager businesswoman director
- Years active
- 1980–present
- Height
- 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
- Spouse
- Slobodan Živojinović ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1991 )
- Relatives
- Aleksandra Prijović (stepdaughter-in-law)
- Genres
- Pop folk turbo-folk
- Instrument
- vocals
- Labels
- PGP-RTB Diskoton Grand Production
- Formerly of
- Slatki Greh
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Key dates
- Born
- 20 October 1960
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Serbia
- Place of birth
- Tuzla
- Spouse
- Slobodan Živojinović
- Occupation
- actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- Ilidža Folk Music Festival
- Genre
- folk-pop
- Instrument
- voice
Article
Fahreta Živojinović (née Jahić; Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: Фахрета Живојиновић, née Јахић; born 20 October 1960), known by her stage name Lepa Brena (Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: Лепа Брена), is a Yugoslav singer, actress, and businesswoman. With around 40 million sold records, she is regarded as the most commercially successful recording artist from the former Yugoslavia. Brena is also often credited with creating the turbo-folk genre with her first two albums Čačak, Čačak (1982) and Mile voli disko (1982).
Lepa Brena grew up in Brčko, Bosnia and Herzegovina, but has lived in Belgrade, Serbia since 1980, where she started her career. Lepa Brena is considered to be a symbol of the former Yugoslavia, due to the fact that she was one of the last popular acts to emerge before the breakup of the country. She has described herself as being "Yugo-nostalgic". Along with her husband, Slobodan Živojinović and friend, Saša Popović, Brena co-founded and co-owned Grand Production, the biggest record label and production company in the Balkans. In 2019, they decided to sell Grand Production for €30 million.
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