Svetlana Raznatovic

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Svetlana "Ceca" Ražnatović (Cyrillic: Светлана "Цеца" Ражнатовић, born June 14, 1973, in Žitorađa, Yugoslavia, now Serbia) is a Serbian turbo-folk singer. She started her career as a folk and pop-folk singer. Being one of the highest paid artists in the Serbian music industry, she pursues Serbian modern folk-pop-dance music: performing to various types of music, mainly Balkan/Eastern European folk or plain pop with ethnographical elements.

Early career

Ceca began singing at the age of nine in her hometown of Žitorađa, Serbia, and entered showbusiness in 1988, at the age of 15, when she performed at the Ilidža Music Festival in Sarajevo. Her song Cvetak zanovetak (Nagging flower) was well received. Ceca was mentored by Dobrivoje Doca Ivanković, a composer and producer of folk music, who launched many careers in the 1970s and 1980s (most notably that of Šaban Šaulić).

Ceca's first two albums (Cvetak zanovetak 1988, Ludo srce 1989) were made in Serbian folk music style with some songs having a more modern production (Lepotan, Volim te). To Miki to, her third album, was a major hit in the former Yugoslavia, with 350,000 copies sold. Ceca became the best-selling artist of the Belgrade TV's record label PGP-RTB and third best-selling female folk artist in Yugoslavia, after Lepa Brena and Dragana Mirković. She continued in the same direction with her next album, Babaroga (1991) which included a music video composed of footage from her 18th birthday gala event (Hej vršnjaci).

Success

Ceca continued to work with Marina Tucaković and later with Tucaković's young protégé Aleksandar Milić Mili, with whom she continues to work today. Her next three albums, Sta je to u tvojim venama/Kukavica (What is flowing in your veins/Coward, 1993), Ja još spavam u tvojoj majici (I still sleep in your shirt, 1994) and Fatalna ljubav (Fatal love, 1995), broadened her popularity. With a more modern production of music, music videos, and an evolving style, her popularity has grown, as demonstrated by her 1996 album Emotivna luda (Emotional fool) and 1997's Maskarada (Masquerade). The song "Nevaljala" ("Bad girl") from that album became the number one hit in Serbia for 17 consecutive weeks. Her recording schedule has since become erratic because of the birth of her two children, Anastasija and Veljko, and having to deal with family tragedy (see Controversies below). Maskarada (1997), Ceca 2000 (1999), Decenija (Decade, 2001), Gore od ljubavi (Worse than love, 2004), Idealno loša (Ideally bad, 2006) and Ljubav živi (Love is living, 2011)

Ceca has refused many contracts offered by various European musical companies, citing lack of time. She has sold over 10 million copies, mainly in Balkan countries. Four books were written about her life, popularity, imprisonment etc.: Ceca - Idealno naša (Ceca: Ideally ours), Ceca - Između ljubavi i mržnje (Ceca: between love and hate), Ceca - 121 dan (Ceca - 121 days [in prison]), Ceca - Ikona srpskog folka (Ceca, the icon of Serbian folk).

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