Svetlana "Seka" Aleksić is a famous turbo-folk star born on April 23rd, 1981 in Zvornik, Yugoslavia, nowadays in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She recorded all of her music albums in Serbia, but she is a also popular in all Ex-Yugoslavian countries. She's having gigs all over the Europe, mostly in cities with Serbian diasporas as her most numerous fans. Seka Aleksić was born to a Serbian father, Milorad and a Bosniak mother, Ibrima. She was raised with her younger brother, Nedzad (Necko). Her father worked as a machinist and her mother was an employee at the Drina football club. Her parents later divorced and she continued living with her mother. When the war broke out, Seka and her family moved to Banja Koviljača, Serbia and later Šabac. She started out singing Ceca's songs in cafés before she became famous. She moved to Switzerland for 2 years to boost her career in clubs and discotheques. After Switzerland she moved to Bijeljina and performed at a festival in Cuprija, where she also found her future husband. At the beginning, as a folk-diaspora singer, she had difficulty finding gigs around the EU countries, especially Sweden, because of her Serbian background. Nowadays, because of her popularity, Seka can be seen in many major EU cities.
Seka also had an important role in the Serbian movie "We Are Not Angels 3" as "Smokvica", the girlfriend of a Turbo-folk star. The role first went to Croatian singer Severina but she declined due to scheduling conflicts.
Since the 2002 Music Festival in the small town of Ćuprija Serbia, which was her first major public appearance as singer, she has continued living and working in Serbia (currently resides in Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia), together with her husband, well-known serbian manager/producer Zoran Kovačević and their Chihuahua "Cezar". After her first public appearances people saw her as new, modern Serbian turbo-folk icon. Nowadays she's the second most popular folk singer in Serbia, after major Serbian and Balkan star Svetlana Raznatović-Ceca.
Seka has her own clothing line, called "Rich Bitch", released at the same time as her third album Dođi i uzmi me. Her second clothing line is called "Queen" after her fourth album Kraljica which was released in the Fall of 2007.
Source: http://artists.letssingit.com/seka-aleksic-vglpq/biography
