Svetlana Ražnatović

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Ceca Ražnatović (2009)

Svetlana "Ceca" Ražnatović ( Serbian - Cyrillic Светлана Цеца Ражнатовић , maiden name Veličković * 14. June 1973 in Žitorađa , Yugoslavia ) is a Serbian folk - / turbo folk - singer , particularly in the successor states of Yugoslavia as well as in Bulgaria and Greece known is.

Life

She made her debut at the age of 14 at the folk music festival in Ilidža with the song Cvetak zanovetak . At that time, Lepa Brena , Dragana Mirković and Vesna Zmijanac dominated the music scene in Yugoslavia, and it took a few years for the young Ceca to find her place in the music scene.

It had its first major successes in the 1990s. She married Željko Ražnatović , known as Arkan , in 1995 at the age of 22 . The wedding was televised live. During her marriage to Ražnatović, she gave birth to two children, son Veljko and daughter Anastasija.

On January 15, 2000, her husband was shot dead in the Intercontinental Hotel in Belgrade . After his death, she disappeared from the media for a year.

With the death of her husband, she inherited the presidency of the Belgrade football club FK Obilić , which she sold after a few years.

She remained very popular in large parts of the Serbian population, so that in 2002 she was able to give a memorial concert for her husband in front of around 70,000 fans in the Marakana Stadium in Belgrade, during which sparklers burned and chants intoned her husband's battle name. Ceca declared to sing "for her husband Željko, for Belgrade, for Serbia".

Her album Idealno loša was heralded by a spectacular concert at the Belgrade "Ušće" with 80,000 visitors. The album had great success.

Alleged links to organized crime

In 2003 she was arrested for illegally possessing weapons. Several weapons and various antiques of dubious origin were confiscated. Ceca stated that she knew nothing about the weapons in her house. She was in custody for four months. After her release, much remained in the dark to the public. It was said that she had been in contact with the murderers of Prime Minister Zoran đinđić . However, this could not be proven.

“Ceca nacionale”, as it is called, has long been considered inviolable. No tabloid dared to report negatively about her, as she is said to be very close to the Serbian underworld. Since she was arrested a few years ago, however, critical reports have been increasing in the media. She recently even brought a lawsuit against the tabloid "Kurir" due to negative press.

At the end of January 2007, during the trial against members of the mafia-like Zemun clan, a key witness accused Ceca of suggesting the owner of TV Pink , Željko Mitrović, to members of the clan as a well-funded kidnapping victim. In the past, this had contributed significantly to Ceca's popularity with preferred broadcasting slots in his program. After these allegations became known, Ceca’s videos were removed from the television’s programming.

She was able to avert an impending trial in spring 2011 through a deal with the Belgrade public prosecutor's office. As president of the Belgrade football club FK Obilić, she had confessed to having diverted funds from the club amounting to five million euros from the transfer of players to foreign clubs to private accounts. As a punishment, she had to pay a fine of 1.5 million euros and serve one year of house arrest, from which she was given four months off because of the 2003 remand.

Discography

Albums

  • 1988: Cvetak zanovetak [PGP RTB]
  • 1989: Ludo srce [PGP RTB]
  • 1990: Pustite me da ga vidim [PGP RTB]
  • 1991: Babaroga [PGP RTB]
  • 1993: Šta je to 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 [City Records & Grand Production]
  • 2004: Gore od ljubavi [Cecamusic & Miligrammusic]
  • 2005: London Mix [Cecamusic & Miligrammusic & Blic Zena]
  • 2006: Idealno loša [Cecamusic & Miligrammusic]
  • 2011: Ljubav živi [Miligrammusic]
  • 2012: C-Club [Miligrammusic]
  • 2013: Poziv [City Records & Miligrammusic]
  • 2016: autograph

Singles

Web links

Commons : Svetlana Ražnatović  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nortbert Mappes-Niediek: Balkan Mafia: States in the Hand of Crime - A Danger for Europe . 2nd Edition. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-86153-313-8 , p. 37 .
  2. ↑ CNN.com: Widow leads concert for Arkan. June 16, 2002, accessed September 17, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Serbia's submerged pop diva ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Stuttgarter Zeitung of February 26, 2007. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de
  4. ↑ Vesna Rajković, Mirjana ÐIKIC: sentences for Serbian folk star. dw-world.de, April 15, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Ražnatović, Svetlana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ceca
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Serbian pop and folk singer
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Žitorađa , Yugoslavia , today Serbia