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Lepa Brena

1960 - Today

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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 commercially most 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lepa Brena is the 238th most popular singer (up from 247th in 2019), the 31st most popular biography from Bosnia and Herzegovina (up from 37th in 2019) and the most popular Bosnian, Herzegovinian Singer.

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, Lepa Brena ranks 238 out of 4,381. Before her are Zucchero Fornaciari, Bessie Smith, Gloria Gaynor, Milva, Engelbert Humperdinck, and Afric Simone. After her are Viktor Tsoi, Van Morrison, Eric Johnson, Franco Corelli, Umberto Tozzi, and Sonny Boy Williamson II.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Lepa Brena ranks 50. Before her are Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, David Duchovny, Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran, Bono, Yves Leterme, and Careca. After her are Hugo Weaving, J. Christopher Stevens, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Jorge Sampaoli, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Anne Parillaud.

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In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among people born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lepa Brena ranks 31 out of 375. Before her are Ante Marković (1924), Haris Silajdžić (1945), Vojislav Šešelj (1954), Meša Selimović (1910), Vjekoslav Luburić (1914), and Safet Sušić (1955). After her are Catherine of Bosnia (1425), Ljupko Petrović (1947), Bekim Fehmiu (1936), Ban Kulin (1163), Stephen II, Ban of Bosnia (1292), and Fikret Abdić (1939).

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Among SINGERS In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among singers born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lepa Brena ranks 1. After her are Dino Merlin (1962), Zdravko Čolić (1951), Željko Bebek (1945), Kemal Monteno (1948), Sena Jurinac (1921), Halid Bešlić (1953), Rodoljub Roki Vulović (1955), Davorin Popović (1946), Ljiljana Petrović (1939), Seid Memić Vajta (1950), and Sabahudin Kurt (1935).

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