Danica Krstić

Danica Krstić is a Serbian ethno and traditional folk singer, born on 25 November 1995 in Kragujevac and nicknamed the Nightingale of Šumadija. She went to the Dr Miloje Milojević music school and the First Gymnasium in Kragujevac and studied ethnomusicology at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade. She also sang with the cultural society Abrašević.

She started singing at about five and first stood on a stage in 2004 in Kragujevac. In 2005 she sang at the opening of the Children's World Olympiad in Brno, and as a girl she recorded songs for the TV series Ranjeni orao (2008) and Greh njene majke (2009). In 2012 she won the vocal soloists category of the RTS series Šljivik with "Kiša pada, trava raste".

In 2015 she finished second in the Serbian Eurovision selection with "Suze za kraj", which she also sang at Sunčane skale. At sixteen she had joined Sanja Ilić & Balkanika, and in 2018 the group won Beovizija with "Nova deca" and represented Serbia at Eurovision in Lisbon, finishing 19th in the final with 113 points.

Her debut solo album, Pod gorom se šetalo devojče, came out on PGP RTS in October 2017: traditional songs from Serbia and its neighbours. She has toured North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, the Netherlands, Poland and Romania. Her recordings are gathered here.