Relja

Relja Popović, who records as Relja, is a Serbian singer, rapper and actor, born in Belgrade on 2 August 1989. He studied at the Faculty of Media and Communications of Singidunum University and studied acting at the Academy of Arts in Belgrade. As a teenager he was already a film actor: for Vladimir Perišić's Ordinary People (2009) he won Best Actor at the Sarajevo and Cottbus film festivals, the youngest winner of the Heart of Sarajevo, and he later appeared in Srđan Dragojević's The Parade.

In 2005 he formed Elitni Odredi with his childhood friend Vladimir Matović. The duo released the album Oko sveta in 2010 and broke through in 2011 with "Kao kokain" and "Beograd", and split at the start of 2015.

His first solo single, "Beograd još živi", came out in April 2015. "Crni sin" with Cvija and Coby followed in 2016, then "Samo jako" with Coby and Stoja, "Latino Evropa" and "Mi amor". In 2020 he founded his own label, Made in BLKN Records, distributed by IDJTunes. With Rasta, Devito and Nucci he recorded a run of hits: "Omađijala" reached number two and "Zovite doktore" number eight on the Billboard Croatia Songs chart, and in January 2024 "Sve si znala" became his first number one there.

Later songs include "Nemir" with Nataša Bekvalac and "Habibi" (2025) with Maya Berović. The EP Stroberi came out in 2024 and his debut album Hotel Jugoslavija in May 2025, entering the charts in Austria and Switzerland; "Intercontinental" (2026) went to number one in Croatia, and the EPs Beograđanka and Varljivo leto followed in 2026. On screen he played the lead, Sale, in the film Videoteka, which premiered at FEST 2024. He has been a judge and mentor on the IDJ Show since 2022 and plays Igi in the series Besa. This playlist gathers his recent releases.