Ana Bekuta

Ana Bekuta is a Serbian folk singer, born Nada Polić on 6 September 1959 in Priboj and raised in the village of Banja, the eldest of three daughters of Branko and Milica Polić. She went to the gymnasium in Priboj, sang as a girl in the school choir and a cultural-artistic society, and in 1974 came second in the competition "Prvi glas Priboja".

Her first professional engagement came in 1980, and for about five years she sang in restaurants and hotels across Yugoslavia. In 1985 she took the name Ana Bekuta, on the suggestion of Predrag Vuković Vukas, because several other singers called Nada were working in folk music at the time. The same year PGP RTB released her first album, Ti si mene varao, and she sang "Ja nisam rođena da živim sama" at the MESAM festival. Ti mi trebaš (1986) and Samo ti (1987) followed, then Uvek postoji nada (1988) on Diskos, and in 1989 she won MESAM with "Rano moja".

The early 1990s brought "Tugo moja crnooka", "Bekrija" and "Ostavljena", and then Pitaš kako živim (1993), the album with "Veseljak", later chosen among the sixty best folk songs. Taj život moj (1995) and Opet imam razloga da živim (1996), with "Zlatiborske zore" and "Kralj ponoći", came out on PGP RTS. From Kriv si samo ti (1999) she recorded for Grand Production: Svirajte mi onu pesmu (2001), the year of "Crven konac", Dve suze (2003), Brojanica (2005), Manite se, ljudi (2006), Blago meni (2009), Hvala, ljubavi! (2013) and Ime sreće (2018). In 2006 she won the Dragiša Nedović festival in Vrnjačka Banja with "Dobro jutro, lepi moj".

Ana Bekuta has sung many duets: "Ljubavi moja" with Hasan Dudić (1990), "Nemoj ništa pričati" and "Treba vremena" with Dragan Kojić Keba, "Stani, suzo" with Marinko Rokvić (2004), songs with Mira Škorić, "Crveno sunce" with Šaban Šaulić (2012), a live "Ti si lek za moju dušu" with Nikola Rokvić (2022) and "Zagrli me" with Halid Bešlić (2023).

Since 2011 she has given concerts at Belgrade's Sava Centar every year, and since 2014 she has been a judge on the TV competition "Zvezde Granda". In 2023 she released two albums on Brojanica Ton, Grešila sam and I za vas, koji niste smeli, and on 6 and 7 September 2025 she marked forty years on stage, and her birthday, with two concerts at Sava Centar. She received the SEMUS lifetime achievement award in 2018, was named a national estrada-music artist of Serbia in 2020, and on 16 February 2026 was given the Golden Medal for Merit.