Lepa Brena

Lepa Brena on the island of Brijuni , 2007

Lepa Brena , "Beautiful Brena", Cyrillic  Лепа Брена , real name: Fahreta Jahić-Živojinović; Cyrillic  Фахрета Јахић-Живојиновић (born October 20, 1960 in Tuzla , FVR Yugoslavia ) is a Yugoslav folk and pop singer who is particularly known in the former Yugoslavia , Bulgaria , Turkey and Romania .

Life

1980s

Lepa Brena grew up as the third child of the medical-technical assistant Adib and the tailor Ifeta Jahić in Brčko . In Brčko, she also completed elementary school and then high school. Brena has won several awards as the best of her year and has taken part in various knowledge competitions. In addition to school, she sang regularly at the Vasa Pelagić cultural center . During this time she won the Mladi Graditelji talent competition with a song by Kemal Monteno . She also played basketball at Club Interplet Brčko . Her teammates all had short, distinctive names. However, her name (Fahreta) was too long for the trainer when he had to give instructions during training or tournaments, so he simply gave her the nickname Brena , which would later become her stage name.

Lepa Brena moved to Belgrade in 1979 with the intention of studying tourism science at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the University of Belgrade. After she had dropped out in her first year of study, Jahić appeared at various events in Brčko and met Saša Popović in this way. He was looking for a new singer for his band, which at that time was still performing under the name Lira Show Band (Lira Šou Bend) , as the predecessor Spasa intended to leave the band. Lepa Brena joined the band, moved to Novi Sad and went on tour with them .

Initially they appeared in hotels, such as B. in the Hotel Park in Novi Sad or the Hotels Taš and Jugoslavija in Belgrade.

Brena and Lira Šou released their first album in 1981 after the composer Milutin Popović ( Zahar ) became aware of them. On his advice, the band name was changed from Lira Šou to Slatki Greh ("sweet temptation", literally "sweet sin"). The well-known tracks on the album were Ljubi me Omere, Žeravica and especially Čačak , which was an instant hit. The songs often had humorous or ambiguous lyrics.

Brena and the band Slatki Greh were invited to the music show Folk Parada to perform the song Čačak . Brena's appearance was not aired. Showmaster Milovan Ilić ( Minimaks ), who was popular at the time and had heard of the performance, took the recording from the archive to show it on his show Pretežno vedro (Mostly cheerful). Ilić's intention was actually to make fun of Brena and Slatki Greh, but the effect was exactly the opposite. From that point on, Brena's career took an upward trend. Ilić was also the one who gave Brena the prefix Lepa (the beautiful). So on the second album there was no longer Brena i Slatki Greh, but Lepa Brena i Slatki Greh.

Her next album came out in 1982, with which Brena established herself as a Yugoslav pop star. Zahar wrote the title again. She was now a welcome guest in the Folk-Parada series . Their producer was Raka Đokić from 1983, while they were supervised by Vladimir Cvetković in the early years. In February 1984 Lepa Brena performed at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo . The audience was also not bothered that their song Mače moje 1985 was on the "Index". The Yugoslav authorities had banned it on the grounds that the text was obscene .

She took part twice in the Yugoslav qualifications for the Eurovision Song Contest as a representative of Radio-Televizija Beograd (RTB, later Radio-Televizija Srbije ). In 1983 she took seventh place out of sixteen participants. On her second attempt in 1986 she reached tenth place out of fifteen participants.

In 1982 Lepa Brena got her first small film role in the hit comedy Tesna koža , she played a club singer. Two years later she played herself in the film Nema problema . Between 1987 and 1991 she took part in the most successful music films in Yugoslavia; the three-part film series Hajde da se volimo was named after its biggest hit. Džej Ramadanovski also achieved fame at her side through a guest role in Hajde da se volimo 2 . They continued the successful collaboration later in the form of two duets.

In the late 1980s, Brena was one of the biggest stars in Yugoslavia. It even filled entire football stadiums in the neighboring countries of Romania and Bulgaria . A Lepa Brena Barbie doll was also marketed very successfully. She has won countless prizes and has been named "Singer of the Year" several times at events such as the Oskar Popularnosti . Their recordings have regularly been awarded platinum . Lepa Brena also dedicated two songs to her country, Živela Jugoslavija and Jugoslovenka . When her career peaked in the mid-1980s, people spoke of Brena nacionale .

1990s

It was only the war in Yugoslavia that shook her career. Bosniaks accused Brena of having published photos showing her wearing the uniform of the Army of the Republika Srpska to express their solidarity with them. However, it was just a safari costume that she had worn in her film Hajde da se volimo 3 . When the war struck her hometown of Brčko, she brought her parents to the house in Novi Sad, where she used to live.

On December 7, 1991 she married the former tennis professional Slobodan Živojinović ("Bobo") and moved from Novi Sad to Belgrade. In 1993 she released the album I da odem iza leđa bogu and the following year gave a concert in the sold-out Tašmajdan football stadium. In the same year her longtime producer Raka Đokić died. In 1994 and 1996 two more albums followed. In 1994 she was the first singer from Yugoslavia to give a concert in the now independent Slovenia . In 1996 she also brought the first Yugoslav multimedia CD Brena multimedia onto the market, which, in addition to video clips and photos, contained a list of all her songs and a lot of other information about herself. In 1999 she founded the record company Grand Production . During the Kosovo war in 1999, she sang regularly at the daily event Pesma nas je održala (“The song kept us upright”) in order to show solidarity with Yugoslavia.

Today Lepa Brena runs the Grand Slam company with her husband . Among other things, they sell the energy drink Red Bull on the Serbian market and are representatives of the car manufacturer Ford in Belgrade.

2000s

On the occasion of the album Pomračenje Sunca , which was set to music in 2000, the backing band Slatki Greh gathered around Lepa Brena. On November 23, 2000, Lepa Brena's eight-year-old son Stefan was kidnapped. The hostage-takers released him on November 28, 2000 after the Živojinović couple had paid a ransom of 2.5 million marks . The perpetrators were caught in 2003 as part of the Sablja police operation . Subsequently, Jahić-Živojinović took an artistic break, left war-torn Yugoslavia and lived in the USA for two years .

In 2002 Lepa Brena received a special award from her former record company PGP-RTS . She was the top-selling artist ever to have signed with PGP-RTS . On this occasion, a new compilation with their greatest hits was released.

In 2004 she gave a concert in Tuzla , where nationalist groups first called for their boycott . They tried to influence the population with slogans like “Don't go to Ms. Živojinović's concert!” (Based on her Serbian surname). Nevertheless, the concert was completely sold out. The guest star was the Bosnian singer Kemal Monteno, who said during his performance: "Here today love has triumphed over hate!"

After her last appearance in Zagreb on November 29, 1990 at the Studentski Centar on Dan Republike (" Republic Day"), Alka Vuica became the singer, writer and presenter in 2005 with an appearance on the popular television program Jedan na jedan on March 7, 2005 initiated her comeback in Croatia on the Croatian private broadcaster Nova TV . Lepa Brena spoke in a detailed interview about family, career, her record company and many other things. In June 2006 Lepa Brena gave an exclusive interview to the Croatian journalist Darko Hudelist, which was published in the weekly magazine Globus . This was also Lepa Brena's first newspaper interview in a long time.

After eight years, Lepa Brena released the album Uđi slobodno in late 2008 . The songs were composed by Aleksandar Milić, who had previously worked with Ceca Ražnatović . Marina Tucaković wrote the lyrics. A documentary was filmed for the premiere , which was supposed to introduce the audience to the album and its creation process. The new songs differed significantly from what Brena had previously set to music. The songs were more melancholy now. Playful and lively songs, the former trademark of Brena, cannot be found on the album.

In January 2009 Lepa Brena visited Bulgaria, where she was received, among other things, by the Bulgarian Princess Sofija. During her stay in Bulgaria she was a guest judge for the Bulgarian Pop Idol and a guest on the show by the Bulgarian singer Azis .

On February 15, 2009, Lepa Brena was the first guest since 1990 on the Croatian public television HRT . Aleksandar Stanković was able to set a record for his long-term program Nedjeljom u dva with an audience rating of 1.2 million viewers and an overall average of 25% (sometimes up to 75%) . Lepa Brena's appearance on the show was controversial in the Croatian press, as the show has so far mostly hosted people from the world of politics and not from the entertainment industry. Appearances on Slovenian television followed, for example in the show As ti tud not padu , where she was also seen in skits. Her appearance on the Bosnian show Veče sa Emirom attracted a lot of attention . It was the first time in 18 years that she was in Sarajevo.

A big worldwide tour, entitled Uđi slobodno , should round off the promotion. In Bosnia-Herzegovina there were radical protests against Lepa Brena, massively supported by the television channel TV Hayat . Boycott attempts were reported daily on the main news program. The reason often given was that Lepa Brena did not stand up for her old home in the 90s, even though her social rank was very high. The Bosniak audience was also bothered by the fact that Lepa Brena and the extras in the video clip for the song Ljubav je, lek za sve from 1996 wore stylized police uniforms, some of which were reminiscent of those of the Serbian MUP. The authenticity of the photo in the alleged uniform of the Republika Srpska from 1993 was also discussed again. Lepa Brena commented on the allegations in a half-hour live broadcast during the main Hayat news program. Other radical organizations, such as the Patriotska liga, publicly insulted Lepa Brena as četnikuša and traitor to whom the gates of Sarajevo were to remain closed forever.

In return, some colleagues supported Lepa Brena. So spoke Kemal Monteno , Halid Bešlić and Hanka Paldum publicly their support.

Despite all protests, Lepa Brena gave her planned concert in Sarajevo on May 30th, 2009, in the sold-out Zetra hall , without any negative incidents. Proponents of the protest against Lepa Brena and her concert should astonish the appearance of Naser Orić , former military commander of the Bosnian armed forces during the Yugoslav war.

There were also protests in Croatia. The Udruženje Branitelja initially demanded that the concert in Zagreb be banned. They later asked Lepa Brena to voluntarily cancel the concert. They also asked the Croatian government and the Ministry of Culture there to cover the costs of the arena in Zagreb in order to prevent Lepa Brenas from giving a concert. As a last resort, it was requested that all proceeds from the concert go to a Croatian charity. The politician Jadranka Kosor also spoke out publicly against Lepa Brena's concert. The chairwoman of Nezavisno Udruženje Branitelja (Independent Volunteers of Croatia) announced that supporters of 20 different Branitelji associations will be handing out photos of Lepa Brena in the alleged Serbian uniform from 1993 on the Zagreb Trg Ban Jelačić. The action takes place under the motto Odbrana i čast (Defense and Honor). Originally, a list of the names of the Branitelji who fell during the Yugoslav war should be printed on the back of the photos, which was ultimately not included. On June 12, 2009, a demonstration was held in front of the Zagreb Arena, under the direction of the same organizers. The protesters lit candles for those who fell in the Croatian War and put up pictures of the war to discourage people from attending the concert. However, the fact that the concert was sold out months in advance and audience polls showed that the Croatian audience disagreed. On the day of the concert there was another demonstration in front of the Arena Zagreb. The demonstrators gathered in front of the building at 6:00 p.m. and stayed there until the concert began. They berated the concert-goers and showered them with leaflets on which the controversial photo of Brena, in the supposed uniform, was shown. Again, as a deterrent, grave lights and pictures depicting scenes of war were set up around the arena. There were three false reports about bombs in the Zagreb Arena. The same day the Zagreb Pride took place. Parallel to the Zagreb Pride there was a counter-demonstration, during which violent clashes broke out, so that many counter-demonstrators fought on two fronts and also demonstrated against Brena's concert. However, there were no violent riots at Lepa Brena's concert. According to the Croatian police, contrary to media reports, there were no additional security measures than the usual.

Lepa Brena sang in Mostar on June 10th, 2009 for the first time in 26 years. In honor of Lepa Brena, the traditional jump into the Neretva from the Old Bridge was performed . Concerts in Banja Luka and Portorož were also successful.

As part of the TV tabloid Red Carpet , members of the HVIDRA association threatened, after announcing a concert in the arena in Split, that 40,000 people would gather in front of the arena to prevent a performance. Former soccer player Ivica Hlevnjak said he would blow up the arena before Lepa Brena performed in it. The HVIDRA association also filed a lawsuit against the singer on what they stated was "reasonable suspicion that she violated values ​​protected by international law." Lepa Brena said on this subject for the daily Press : "All I want to say to you is that I want to thank you for the warm welcome. I don't attach much importance to what is being said, but I think that it is wrong that our performers in Croatia are constantly threatened, even with death, while their performers in Serbia are welcome and give concerts without incident. "

2010s

In March 2010 Lepa Brena officially announced that the collaboration with the composer Aleksandar Milić and his Miligram Band had ended. Zoran Čaušević "Kiki" founded a new band which Lepa Brena will accompany during her performances.

Lepa Brena won the Oskar Popularnosti in various categories during her career and is the record holder for trophies won. In 2010 she was once again awarded the Oskar Popularnosti as the best singer in the folk category by Puls magazine . She switched off her also nominated colleagues Seka Aleksić , Dragana Mirković , Tanja Savić and Ceca . The readers of the magazine decided on the winner. However, since she was giving a concert in Ptuj , Slovenia that evening and for this reason could not receive the Oskar personally, there was a live connection to Ptuj, in which Lepa Brena addressed the audience.

In March 2011 Lepa Brena canceled a concert scheduled for March 26th in Osijek . Domobrani had previously demonstrated with pictures of Lepa Brena and cemetery replicas in their hands and announced that they would block all entrances on the day of the concert so that no one could attend the event. Lepa Brena apologized to her supporters for canceling the concert, but did not want to be associated with politics. Other concerts in Croatia had previously gone off without any problems, for example in Rijeka .

On May 29, 2011 Brena released her new single Metak sa posvetom . For the first time, the single was made available as a download on its website and the websites of various magazines. The single announces the new album Začarani krug . This happened at the same time as the single releases by Dragana Mirković and Ceca, which was followed with great interest by the tabloids. The song was written by the Croatian composers and performers Petar Grašo and Antonija Šola .

For the release of her album Začarani krug , Lepa Brena, apart from the first single promotions via the Internet, signed a contract with the mineral oil company Lukoil . He offered her album together with a Lukoil customer card on July 20, 2011 in his branches at a special price. The official release in regular trade was scheduled for August 20, 2011, then at the normal retail price.

On her 51st birthday, Lepa Brena gave a concert at the BeoArena . Due to good demand, a concert was given in the BeoArena the next day. As part of her PR tour through Bulgaria, she was invited by the Prime Minister Boyko Borissow , who received her at Narodno Sabranie . A big concert followed on December 3, 2011 in the Arena Armeec in Sofia and on December 8, 2011 in the Arena Čair in Niš .

Lepa Brena already had health problems in 2004 . After her hand turned blue during a performance and she felt numbness , the Vojnomedicinska akademija (Military Medical Academy) in Belgrade diagnosed a thrombosis . This was followed by an inpatient stay in the same hospital . In 2012 a thrombosis was found again, which resulted in further inpatient treatment. Lepa Brena changed many habits on medical advice and canceled numerous appearances.

In 2013 Brena gave a concert at Velikogospojinski dani , in Novi Bečej , in front of over 60,000 people. Shortly before Christmas and New Year's Eve 2013, a compilation of Bosnian, Serbian and Macedonian folk songs was released, which Lepa Brena dedicated to her mother, as well as the download singles Ljubav čuvam za kraj and Zaljubljeni veruju u sve. The latter song was composed by Hari Varešanović . On Valentine's Day 2014, after an 18-year break, Brena sang in Novi Sad, in the sold-out SPENS center , in front of 10,000 people.

reception

Lepa Brena still declares herself today as a Yugoslav and Yugoslav nostalgic . Her statement from an interview for the daily Press is often quoted : "If someone has the right to declare himself a Croat or a Serb, then I also have the right to be a Yugoslavian." (Original statement : "Ako neko ima pravo da se deklariše kao Hrvat ili Srbin, i ja imam pravo da budem Jugoslovenka). ” The composer Milutin Popović, better known by his stage name Zahar, who wrote several of her hits, said of Lepa Brena that she was “ the last pillar of brotherhood and unity "(Original statement:" poslednji stub bratstva i jedinstva "). Lepa Brena is also often referred to by the ex-Yugoslav press as a symbol of “Yugoslavism”.

Numerous sociologists and experts from the media industry also dealt with the “Lepa Brena” phenomenon . Countless possible theories are listed for their great success. Among other things, according to media educator Milena Dragićević-Šešić, it was crucial that Lepa Brena was the first singer in the former Yugoslavia to use a marketing strategy that was unusual in the folk music sector and previously only used in the pop and rock music business. As the first interpreter, she was able to interest social circles in her music who had never heard folk music before. She was also a pioneer when she perceived children as a market-relevant factor and consciously addressed them as a target group. Furthermore, it is often emphasized from various sides that today she is "the symbol of a time when most of the Yugoslavs were still happy and carefree" , so that Lepa Brena is mostly associated with exclusively positive things (original statement: [...] svi vole Brenu jer je simbol jednog vremena - kada smo svi bili srećni, bezbrižni [...]).

Massive efforts by individual media and associations to boycott Lepa Brena's concerts in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina after the end of the war and to discredit her as an artist and people were unsuccessful. Her concerts were always sold out and the audience welcomed them with an impartial ovation, just like in Yugoslav times.

Your concert from 1990 in the Vasil Levski National Stadium in Sofia with 100,000 spectators is legendary. Even more than twenty years later, no artist has managed to attract so many visitors and fill this football stadium. Lepa Brena's 1984 concert in front of 60,000 fans in Timișoara, Romania, was just as spectacular . From a crane she sang her hit Živela Jugoslavija .

Discography

Albums

• 1981: Čačak (PGP-RTS)
• 1982: Mile voli disko (PGP-RTS)
• 1983: Sitnije Cile sitnije (PGP-RTS) [Single]
• 1984: Bato (PGP-RTS)
• 1984: Šeik (PGP-RTS)
• 1985: Jedan dan života , Lepa Brena & Miroslav Ilić (PGP-RTS) [EP]
• 1986: Miki Mićo (PGP-RTS)
• 1986: Uske pantalone (PGP-RTS)
• 1987: Hajde da se volimo (Discoton)
• 1989: Čuvala me mama (Discoton)
• 1990: Boli me uvo za sve (Discoton)
• 1991: Zaljubiška (PGP-RTS)
• 1993: I da odem iza leđa bogu (ZaM)
• 1994: Kazna božija (ZaM)
• 1996: Luda za tobom + Brena multimedia (ZaM)
• 2000: Pomračenje sunca (Grand Production)
• 2008: Uđi slobodno ... (Grand Production)
• 2011: Začarani krug (Grand Production)
• 2018: Tsar je važno da l 'se peva ili pjeva? (Grand Production)

With the exception of the albums Zaljubiška , Uđi slobodno ... and Začarani krug , as well as the single Sitnije, Cile, sitnije and the EP Jedan dan života , Lepa Brena's albums had no official title. Therefore, for the sake of simplicity, the albums are usually called colloquially after the A1 song of the respective album.

The albums from 1987, 1989 and 1990 are also the soundtracks for the trilogy Hajde da se volimo .

Singles

• 1987: Posle devet godina - Lepa Brena & '"Alisa"
• 1995: Nisam ja mali - Lepa Brena & Džej Ramadanovski
• 2013: Zaljubljeni veruju u sve
• 2015: Ljubav nova
• 2017: Carica
• 2019: Odiseja ljubavi

Compilations

• 1995: Zlatni hitovi 1, 2, 3 (3 separate CDs / PGP-RTS)
• 1995: Nezaboravni hitovi (for the Slovenian market / Tioli)
• 1998: Jedna je ... Lepa Brena (for the Slovenian market / Tioli)
• 1999: Najveći hitovi 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (5 separate CDs / PGP-RTS)
• 2000: Lepa Brena (Rade Krstic)
• 2002: Lepa Brena 1, 2 (2 separate CDs / PGP-RTS)
• 2003: Lepa Brena - The best of (double CD / Grand Production)
• 2013: Lepa Brena - Izvorne i novokomponovane narodne pesme CD 1 (Grand Production)
• 2016: Lepa Brena - Ultimate Best of (6 CDs)

Filmography

• 1982: Tesna koža 1
• 1983: Kamiondžije 2
• 1984: Kamiondžije opet voze
• 1984: Nema problema
• 1987: Hajde da se volimo 1
• 1989: Hajde da se volimo 2
• 1990: Hajde da se volimo 3
• 2009: Mahalaši (TV series, guest appearance)
• 2009: Nad lipom 35 (TV series, guest appearance)
• 2018: Lepa Brena i godine Slatkog greha (documentary in 3 parts)

Web links

Commons : Lepa Brena  - collection of images

• Lepa Brena in theInternet Movie Database(English)
• Lepa Brena at Discogs (English)

Lepa Brena's official websites:

• JednaJeBrena
• Lepa Brena in Sarajevo (2009) , with the traditional folk song Moj dilbere

Individual evidence

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43. ↑ Domobrani idu telima protiv Lepe Brene! www.alo.rs, March 22, 2011 ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
44. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
45. ↑ http://www.pulsonline.rs/puls-poznatih/1786/ovde-mozete-kupiti-breninu-pesmu
46. ↑ http://www.novosti.rs/vesti/spektakl.147.html:332108-Lepa-Brena-i-Ceca-Rat-folk-diva
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49. ↑ http://www.novosti.rs/vesti/spektakl.147.html:350117-Lepa-Brena-u-Beogradskoj-areni
50. ↑ http://www.novosti.rs/vesti/spektakl.147.html:350332-Sa-Brenom-lumperajka-do-zore
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52. ↑ http://www.novosti.rs/vesti/spektakl.147.html:350807-Lepa-Brena-pevala-Borisovu-quotJovano-Jovankequot
53. ↑ http://www.novosti.rs/vesti/spektakl.147.html:356973-Brena-medju-Nislijama
54. ↑ http://www.novosti.rs/vesti/spektakl.147.html:356249-Brena-odusevila-Bugare
55. ↑ http://www.blic.rs/Zabava/Vesti/344445/Lepa-Brena-se-bori-sa-trombozom-Uhvati-me-kriza-ali-necu-prestati-da-pevam
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57. ↑ http://www.blic.rs/Zabava/Vesti/401463/Brena-u-Novom-Beceju-pred-60000-ljudi
58. ↑ http://www.novosti.rs/vesti/spektakl.147.html:471109-Lepa-Brena-Penzija-Uopste-nemam-nameru-da-idem-tamo
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60. ↑ http://dalje.com/hr-scena/foto--lepa-brena-raspametila-novi-sad-ovacijama-ju-ispratilo-10000-ljudi/500011  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: Der Link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
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62. ↑ ^{a b} Jovana Gligorijević, Marija Vidić: Poslednja Jugoslovenka . Vreme, June 19, 2008
63. ↑ http://www.novosti.rs/vesti/spektakl.147.html:348478-Lepa-Brena-Simbol-bratstva-i-jedinstva
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