Tanja Savić

Тања Савић
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Background information
Birth name	Tanja Savić
Born	(1985-03-20) 20 March 1985
Origin	Radinac, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
Genres	Pop-folk
Occupation(s)	singer
Years active	2004–present
Labels	Grand Production
Website	www.tanjasavic.rs

Tanja Savić (Serbian Cyrillic: Тања Савић; born 20 March 1985) is a Serbian pop-folk singer. She became famous aged 19 in 2004 while competing on the first season of the Zvezde Granda television singing contest and making it into the final six. Her debut album, Tako mlada, was released 16 June 2005.

Musical career

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Tako mlada, 2005.

Despite not winning the grand finale, her public profile was raised sufficiently for Grand Production record label to sign her to a contract. This led to her debut album Tako mlada that turned into a major success, paving the way for a career that followed. With this album she become one of biggest stars in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republic of Macedonia, Bulgaria and on. She twice finished second and once fourth place at the Grand Festival.

Her two singles "Suknjica" and "Gde ljubav putuje" were theme songs for films Gucha: Distant Trumpet and Serbian Scars (2008), respectively.

Personal life

Tanja was born in Radinac village in Smederevo municipality, Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia, to parents Staniša and Živana. In a 2004 interview, she stated that she was of Romani descent; she has since denied this.

She is engaged to Dušan Jovančević who lives in Australia. On 29 December 2010, she became a mother for the first time, to a baby boy. In December 2011 it was announced that she was pregnant again.

Discography

Studio albums

• Tako mlada (16 June 2005)
• Tanja Savić (24 June 2008)
• Sestre po suzama (23 December 2009)

Compilation albums

• Best Of Tanja Savić (April 2010)