Maya Berović

Maya Berović is a Serbian pop-folk singer, born Maja Berović on 8 July 1987 in Malešići near Ilijaš, north of Sarajevo. She lost her father when she was three, and after the war ended in 1995 she moved with her mother and older brother to Bratunac, her mother's home town.

In Bratunac she went to school and started singing, and from the age of twelve until she turned eighteen she sang in local discos every weekend. She grew up listening to Dragana Mirković, Lepa Brena and Ceca, and names them as her influences.

Her debut album, Život uživo, came out through Grand Production in August 2007, written by Marina Tucaković and produced by Aleksandar Milić Mili, and gave her the hit "Džin i limunada". Crno zlato followed on IN Music in December 2008, and her third, self-titled album on BN Music in February 2011. It carried "Djevojačko prezime", which she calls her signature song and which won Hit of the Year in Sarajevo.

Djevojka sa juga, released by City Records in October 2012, and Opasne vode in October 2014 each sold 50,000 copies. Opasne vode included "Alkohol", the club song she sang at the first Pink Music Festival in 2014, later heard in the Netflix film The Swimmers. In 2016 the single "Pauza" was her first in the Ekavian dialect, which she has kept using since.

On her 29th birthday she released "To me radi" with the rappers and producers Jala Brat and Buba Corelli, whose video passed 70 million views. The duo wrote and produced Viktorijina tajna in 2017, which sold 50,000 copies, and 7 in 2018, with the duet "Pravo vreme" with Buba Corelli, one of the most viewed videos by an artist from the former Yugoslavia. In 2017 she was the most streamed artist in Serbia. Her Pravo Vreme tour reached the Belgrade Arena in November 2018, where she sang to 18,000 people.

Her later albums are Intime in 2020, which charted in Austria and Switzerland, Milion in 2023 and X in 2025, released in two parts on her own label XL Elit. Maya Berović married Alen Dragosav in 2016, and they have a son.