svetlana �ceca� ra�natovi�, maiden name veli�kovi�; 14 june 1973 in �itoradje, is

a popular turbo- folk singer in serbia and montenegro.

their debut had it at the age of 15 years. their style was at that time dominanter
and innovative than that the competition. it created it within short time to the
superstar on the balkans to ascend. while the term of office of slobodan milo�evi�
came it with the organized criminality into contact, also caused by the fact that
their married man at that time the serbian mafiaboss �eljko ra�natovi�, mentioned
�arkan�, was, which it married with 22 years. their popularity rose into the
1990er years. you style changed also in the whole years. it transformed from a
village beauty to one sexy diva.

on 15 january 2000 its married man zeljko in the hotel intercontinental in

belgrade was murdered by unknown authors. it behind-read their 2 children (veljo
and anastasija), 14 million euro, a mansion in the belgrader nobelviertel dedinje,
as well as several jeeps and bmw's. after its death it disappeared for one year
from the media. importunate media filmed it however with the funeral of their man,
which induced them to it a last press conference before the vocational break to
give.

with the death of its man it inherited the presidency of the belgrader football
club fiber plastic obili�, which it had to sell however after some years.

in far parts of the serbian population it remained however further very popular,
so that it could give a concert in the year 2002 in the marakana stadium in
belgrade before 200.000 fans.

it lives in the mansion, in which they and their man already lived before its
death. 2003 were falsely arrested it because of illegal possession of arms. one
states that this was the revenge of those, which were arkan in former times a
thorn in the eye. it was held four months long in the gef�gnis. after its
dismissal ceca fell itself into the work and took up its so far qualitatively
high-quality album �gore od ljubavi�. in 2005 she made an album named london mix
that contains remixed songs from her last albums in modern and electronic spirit.

it applies, due to the sales figures of its albums as a most successful singer in
former yugoslavia. its new album �idealno losa� as well as a large concert in
belgrade are for june 2006 announced.

non-singing career

it is good to mention that ceca has some experiences in acting and much more in
sport. in 1991 she acted a role of kostana based on a samenamed play written by
serbian playwriter and novelist bora stankovic. and in 1983 she was champion in
bodybuilding(!) .

diskografie:

1988 - cvetak zanovetak [pgp rtb];

1989 - ludo srce [pgp rtb];

1990 - ceca [pgp rtb];

1991 - babaroga [pgp rtb];

1993 - sta per ton of u tvojim venama/kukavica [juve];

1994 - ceca [centroscena];

1995 - fatalna ljubav [pgp rts];

1996 - emotivna luda [komuna];

1997 - maskarada [pgp rts];

1999 - ceca 2000 [pgp rts];

2001 - decenija [town center record & grand production];

2004 - gore od ljubavi [cecamusic & miligrammusic];

2005 - london mix [cecamusic & miligrammusic & blic zena];

2006 - idealno losa [cecamusic & miligrammusic]