S T O J A - Stojanka Novaković (Cyrillic: Стојанка Стоја Новаковић), was born on June 4 1972 in Perlez (near Zrenjanin - former Yugoslavia). Stoja has a very special extremely strong "hypnotizing" voice, said to come from her father, Milan. She released her first album Kako je meni sada in 1998 for Lazarevic Production. A short time later, the Grand Production label owned by Lepa Brena, signed her, and Stoja quickly became one of the Balkans most popular and respected singers. She won the best singer award for Serbia in 2000, the golden microphone and best folk album of the year and for 2004 and singer of the year for Bosnia in 2005. She currently lives in Belgrade and has become a grandmother at the young age of 33.

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