Extra Nena

Extra Nena, also written Ekstra Nena, is the stage name of Snežana Berić, a Serbian pop singer born in Belgrade in 1960. She studied solo singing at the Slavenski music school, graduated from the Academy of Arts in Belgrade and later took a master's degree at Megatrend University, where she has worked as an assistant.

Her debut album, "Luckasta devojčica", came out in 1985, followed by "Tvoje usne kao vino" (1988), "Za jednog čoveka" (1989) and "Ti si bog za mene" (1991). In those years she was a regular at the festivals: Beogradsko proleće from 1987, where she sang "Hiljade sveća gasim" in 1991, and MESAM in Belgrade, where "Ovo je istina prava" won the second audience prize in 1991.

On 28 March 1992 she won the Yugoslav selection in Belgrade with "Ljubim te pesmama", written by Radivoje Radivojević and Gale Janković, just ahead of Vampiri. At the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö she finished 13th of 23 with 44 points; it was Yugoslavia's last entry. The same year she released "Pokreni se" and won in Valjevo with "Moj golube", which also took third prize at Pjesma Mediterana in Budva.

In 1997 Extra Nena won Pjesma Mediterana with "Odlazim". Her albums of the time were "Jasu Srbijo" (1995), "Gorko ćeš plakati" (1996) and "A sve je drukčije moglo" (1998), and later "Ima dana" (2001), "Samo tvoja" (2007) and "Marioneta" (2019). She sang at Beovizija with "Čovek kog sam znala" in 2003, "More ljubavi" in 2004 and "Još ti čujem glas" in 2019. She has also acted on stage, in the musical "Zaljubljena žena" at Sava Centar in 2008, and written three books of fairy tales and poems.

In 2016 she received the Estrada-Music Award of Serbia for her contribution to entertainment music. In 2024, almost forty years after her first appearance there, she won the third audience prize and a lyrics prize at Beogradsko proleće with "Priča o meni". She lives in Belgrade.