Neda Ukraden
Pop Singer
Between 1975 and 2013, this Eastern European pop singer released close to thirty studio albums, including Srce u Srcu (1975), Hocu Tebe (1985), Jorgovan (1993), and Biti Svoja (2012).
She began singing in her late teens and held off her music career to earn English, law, and philology degrees at the University of Sarajevo.
She released her first EP, Sve Sto Moje Srce Zna / Ako Me Trebas, in 1969.
The child of Serbian parents Dusan and Andelija, she spent her childhood in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia. Her marriage to Milan Bilbija produced a child named Jelena.
Ukraden and Natasa Bekvalac are both well known pop singers of Serbian heritage.