Nada Topčagić

Nada Topčagić is a folk singer from Bosnia and Herzegovina, born on 3 July 1953 in Tarevci near Modriča. She grew up in Tarevci, with a spell in Osijek during primary school, and at eighteen she was discovered by the producer Žika Radenković, who took her to Belgrade. Serbian Wikipedia counts her among the best-selling female folk singers of Yugoslavia.

She made her debut in 1975 with the single "Na Drini ćuprija", followed by "Postoji samo jedan čovek" (1976) and "Zaklanjaš mi sunce" (1977), which she sang at Hit leta. From then on she was a regular at Hit parada, with songs such as "Dobro doš'o u moj život" (1979), "Treba mi rame tvoje" (1982), "Sirotan" (1984), "Izvini dušo, izvini" (1986) and "Razbij još jednu čašu" (1987), and she sang "Zovem te, zovem" at MESAM in 1984 and "Uzalud se trudiš" at the Vogošća festival in 1988.

The 1980s were her biggest years. "Želim te želim" (1985) sold more than 50,000 copies and "Nežno nežnije" (1987) more than 100,000, and "Na srcu mi ležiš" (1988), "Volela sam" (1989) and "Koju igru igraš" (1990) each passed 50,000. "Jutro je", from 1989, is arguably her greatest hit. She recorded for PGP-RTB, ZaM and Grand, and later albums include "Sudba sirotana" (1992), "Ti nisi ništa kriv" (1997), "Dobro jutro pijanice" (1998), "Od vikenda do vikenda" (2004) and "Lomio me ovaj život" (2020).

Nada Topčagić also appeared on screen, in the film "Sok od šljiva" (1981), in "Kamiondžije opet voze" (1984), where she sang "Oj zumbule, zumbule", and in "Sekula i njegove žene" (1986) and "Bolje od bekstva" (1993). In March 2021 Zlatan Ibrahimović used "Jutro je" at the Sanremo festival, which brought her wide new attention. She is married to her former manager Zlatko Đurđević, and they have a son, Miroslav. Her other well-known songs include "Mihajlo Miki Miki", "Mali gospodin" and "Čudna jada od Mostara grada".