Dragana Mirkovic

Dragana Mirković
Dragana in 2015.
Background information
Birth name	Dragana Mirković
Born	(1968-01-18) 18 January 1968 (age 49) Kasidol, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
Genres	Folk, turbo-folk, pop-folk
Occupation(s)	Singer, art director of DM SAT
Years active	1984-present
Labels	Diskos, PGP-RTB, Zabava miliona (ZaM), PGP RTS, Lucky Sound, Euro Centar, Grand Production, Komuna, Vujin, Zmex, Sony Music Entertainment, Epic Records
Website	www.dragana.at

Dragana Mirković (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгана Мирковић, pronounced [drǎɡana mǐːrkɔ̝v̞it͡ɕ]; born 18 January 1968) is a Serbian pop-folk singer. She is very popular in ex-Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania. Mirković is arguably one of the most successful artists from the former Yugoslavia, along with Bosnian singer Lepa Brena.

Mirković was born in January 1968, in Kasidol, a village near Požarevac, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia, the youngest of two children. As a child, she lived with her parents, her grandparents, and her sister, Dušica. A major musical influence in her youth was her grandfather, Dragutin, who played the accordion. At the age of five sang the Bosnian folk song "Djevojka sokolu zulum učinila". The story of a talented young singer in Kasidol quickly spread and got the attention of the heads of record label "Diskos". They visited Mirković's parents at their house and suggested that she become a professional singer.

Mirković's first two releases, Imam dečka nemirnog (1984) and Umiljato oko moje (1985), were solo albums. Her third release, Spasi me samoće (1986), was a collaborative album with the band Južni Vetar. The single of the same name was a major hit and brought Mirković and her band to the top of the Yugoslav music scene. She went on to record four more albums with Južni Vetar: Ruže cvetaju samo u pesmama (1987), Najlepši par (1988) with hit single "Milo moje, što te nema", Simpatija (1989) and Pomisli želju (1990).