Cveta Majtanović

Cveta Majtanović is a Serbian singer and songwriter, born on 31 March 1986 in Novi Sad, who became known as the winner of the first season of Idol in Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia, broadcast on RTV BK in 2003 and 2004. She went to the Isidora Sekulić Gymnasium in Novi Sad.

On Idol she sang songs such as Anastacia's "I'm Outta Love", Whitney Houston's "I Learned from the Best", Viktorija's "Barakuda", Oktobar 1864's "Nađi me" and Tasmin Archer's "Sleeping Satellite". In the grand final she sang her own "Nisam ista" and Aleksandra Radović's "Kao so u moru", and she won on her eighteenth birthday.

After the win she went to London to meet the format's owners, recorded the EP Nisam ista, and recorded songs in Serbian and English at Sony BMG's studios in Warsaw with producer Bogdan Kondracki. In 2006 she signed with Mascom Records. Her debut album, Pogledaj u sutra, came out in February 2007 on the Belgrade label Automatik Records, with pop, pop-rock and R&B songs; "Pop Trash" was first heard at the Feras radio festival in 2006, and the title song got a video. In 2008 she sang "Iznad nas" with the electric quartet Studio Alektik at Beovizija, Serbia's Eurovision selection, and finished fourth in the final.

She also worked in television and radio: in 2007 she hosted the FOX show Velika trka Inđijanopolisa, she later worked for TV stations in Zurich, chaired the jury of the music competition Stars in 2009 and 2010, and hosted a morning show on Radio AS FM. She went on to study psychology, industrial engineering and ICT, earned a doctorate from the universities of Novi Sad and Trento, co-founded the Novi Sad news portal Moj Novi Sad, and now works in innovation and sustainability in Italy. The playlist opens with the 2004 video for "Nisam ista", followed by her Idol performances.