Nikolija (singer)
Serbian singer and rapper
Nikolija Jovanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Николија Јовановић; born 19 October 1989), better known mononymously as Nikolija, is a Serbian singer and rapper. Nikolija debuted in 2013 with the single "Ćao, zdravo" and has since released five studio albums: №1 (2016), Yin & Yang (2019), Aurora (2022), Lavina (2024) and Sila (2025), as well as numerous other standalone singles. Her music videos have collectively accumulated over 700 million views on YouTube.
Early life
Jovanović was born 19 October 1989 in Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia and raised in Belgrade, Serbia. She is the only child of pop-folk singer Vesna Zmijanac and economist Vlada Jovanović, who operated as the chief of marketing at the Serbian record label PGP RTS. Her parents divorced shortly after she was born. Jovanović has two half-siblings from her father's second marriage. In 1995, she appeared in her mother's music video for the song "Kad bih znala kako si". During her senior year of high school, Nikolija moved to Athens, Greece. There, she attended the American College of Greece, from which she graduated in 2013 with a degree in International Business.
Career
2010-2016: Career beginnings and No1
Jovanović made her first public appearance in 2010 by competing alongside her mother on the reality TV series Survivor Srbija VIP: Philippines, where she was the first contestant to be voted out.
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