Emina Jahovic
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Emina Jahović Sandal is a Serbia
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n pop singer. She is married to singer Mustafa Sandal
Mustafa Sandal
Mustafa Sandal, commonly known as Musti, is a famous Turkish pop singer. He is fluent in English, Turkish, Italian and French. He emerged in the early 1990s with the revival of Turkish pop music and is one of the most successful pop singers in Turkey with overall sales of 13 million copies...

 from Turkey
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, where she is known as Emina Sandal.

Biography

She has completed basic school of music, performed in the choir of her hometown of Novi Pazar, and took part in the local folklore section. While in high school, she took part in several theatre performances, including Antigone
Antigone (Sophocles)
Antigone is a tragedy by Sophocles written in or before 442 BC. Chronologically, it is the third of the three Theban plays but was written first...

. Since some of the roles included singing, she realized that singing was her real passion.

Career

In 2000, she won the youth festival "Zlatna staza" (Golden Path) in Montenegro, with the song "Samo ti, moja muziko." In 2002, Emina participates in the Bosnian Eurovision pre-selection BH Eurosong with the song "U, la-la."

In 2003. She participated in the "Sunčane Skale" festival in Herceg Novi
Herceg Novi
Herceg Novi is a coastal town in Montenegro located at the entrance to the Bay of Kotor and at the foot of Mount Orjen. It is the administrative center of the Herceg Novi Municipality with around 33,000 inhabitants...

, Montenegro
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 and won the third place with her song "Uzalud se budim". That made her one of the most popular artists in the Former Yugoslavia
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 states. She took part at the festival again in 2004 with the song "Voljela te il' ne voljela".

In 2005 she released her second album called "Radije ranije" for one of the largest Serbian record labels, "City Records". It included the songs "Radije ranije", "Tvoja greška" and the mega-hit "Da l' ona zna". She took part in Budvanski Festival 2005,with the song Nije više tvoja stvar,and won the award for the best song writer.

In 2008 she released her maxi single "Exhale" which was completely produced and recorded in New York City under the production wing of Bojan Dugić, who worked with one of the biggest names in music today.

In December 2008 she will be releasing a new single "Još ti se nadam" a duet with Serbian teenage sensation Saša Kovačević. The video clip was shot at couple of locations in Serbia,and will be one of the most expensive videos in Serbian music video production so far.

In the summer of 2008, Emina released a new album in English called Exhale.

Along with Milan Stanković
Milan Stanković
-Biography :Milan started his career taking part in musical contest Zvezde Granda, where he became a favorite of the audience . He entered the super-final and attracted significant media attention. In the same year, his singles appear on the compilation disks "Zvezde Granda"...

, who won the competition, and Oliver Katić, she was to sing the Serbian entry for Eurovision 2010.

Life

Emina is 5'10" (178 cm) tall. Emina is a student of management
Management
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 at the "Braća Karić" University in Belgrade
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 and is an official face of the Macedonian fashion label "Kara".

Emina is the sister of Mirsad Türkcan, a basketball player based in Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

.

Emina was cover model of many Serbian and Turkish magazines like Cosmopolitan Serbia
Cosmopolitan Serbia
Cosmopolitan Serbia is the serbian edition of the world famous women's lifestyle Cosmopolitan magazine. It's first issue was published in may 2004, feauting Mischa Barton on the cover. The headquarters of the magazine are based in Belgrade...

, Elele (in Turkish), Lepota & Zdravlje (in Serbian) and others.

Currently she lives on relation Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...

 - Istanbul
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.

Albums

  • Tačka (2002)
  • Radije ranije (2005)
  • Exhale (2008)
  • Vila (May 21, 2009)

Singles

  • Tacka (2002)
  • Osmi DAN (2002)
  • Uzalud se budim(2003)
  • Tvoja greška (2005)
  • Da'l ona zna (2006)
  • Nije vise tvoja stvar (2006)
  • Pola ostrog noza (2006)
  • Cool Žena (2007)
  • Exhale (2008)
  • Još ti se nadam feat. Sasa Kovacevic
    Saša Kovačević (singer)
    - Biography :Saša Kovačević was born on the 27 July 1985 in Zemun, Belgrade. He finished secondary music school 'Kosta Manojlović' and the Academy of Recording Arts Department and the sound processing on the BK University. His first public performance was at the "Sunčane skale" in 2004, with the...

     (2009)
  • Pile Moje (2009)
  • Med feat. Dino Merlin
    Dino Merlin
    Edin Dervišhalidović , stage name Dino Merlin, , is a prominent Bosnian singer-songwriter and musician. He is a popular singer/songwriter in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is also popular in the other countries of the former Yugoslavia such as Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia and...

     (2009)
  • Ti kvariigro (2010)
  • Gospodine (Mister) feat. Nataša Bekvalac
    Nataša Bekvalac
    Nataša Bekvalac is a Serbian recording artist, actress and model. Her debut album was nominated for the best album that year in Serbia. Her single Nikotin was nominated for the female Serbian song of the millennium...

     (March 8, 2011 International Women's Day
    International Women's Day
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    )
  • Posle mene (After me) (2011)

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