Dragana Mirkovic

About Dragana Mirkovic

Dragana Mirković (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгана Мирковић, pronounced [drǎɡana mǐːrkɔ̝v̞it͡ɕ]; born 18 January 1968) is a Serbian pop-folk singer and entrepreneur. She rose to prominence in the eighties as a member of the popular collective Južni Vetar. Mirković is recognised as one of the most successful artists from the former Yugoslavia, with collective sales of 10 million records. Alongside her husband, she also founded a satellite music channel called DM SAT. Mirković was born on 18 January 1968, in Kasidol, a village near Požarevac, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia.[1] The youngest of two children, she grew up in the same household as her parents, grandparents and sister Dušica.[2] Mirković has described her upbringing as "Yugoslav", noting the peaceful co-existence between Slavs of different faiths at the time.[3] A musical influence in her youth was her grandfather, Dragutin, who played the accordion.[4] At the age of five, she learned to sing the Bosnian folk song "Djevojka sokolu zulum učinila". Mirković recalled that she cried because of the events portrayed in the song.[4] As a child, she began singing as a soloist in elementary school performances and competitions.[1] Later, she would sing at various celebrations in Kasidol, which caught the attention of record executives.[1]