Romana Panić

Romana Panić, known simply as Romana, is a Serbian pop and folk singer, born in Banja Luka on 9 April 1975. She was named after Đorđe Marjanović's song "Romana", a favourite of her mother's. She first sang in public at twelve, at the Septembarske večeri festival in Jajce, and won the award for the best young newcomer.

From 1993 she sang in clubs, recorded radio jingles and became the face of the company General Company, and the next year she was taken on at Radio Studio A as a presenter, announcer and sound engineer. In 1997 she won the Vidovdanski festival in Banja Luka with "Žena", and in 1999 she sang "Suze za kraj" with Andrej Pucarević at Vaš šlager sezone in Sarajevo.

In 1999 she moved to Serbia and recorded her first album, Lažem, produced by Željko Joksimović. Her second, Venera, followed in 2001. At the Pjesma Mediterana festival in Budva she sang "Samoodbrana" in 2000, the song she is best known for, "Ček bez pokrića" in 2001 and "Ovjeren" in 2003, and in 2000 she came fourth at the Slavianski Bazaar in Belarus.

At Sunčane skale in Herceg Novi she sang "Kad mi gore obrazi" in 2002 and won the festival in 2004 with "Nikad i zauvijek", which hurried along her third album, Ne!. She took part in Beovizija in 2006 with "Kap po kap". One of her biggest hits was "Još te koštam", whose video was filmed in Athens.

Later she released "Odlazim krišom" at the Radio festival in 2008, the duet "Priđi, priđi" with Željko Šašić at the Grand festival, the mini-album Ljubi mi se in 2009 and the album Krećem on City Records in 2011. In 2013 she was a contestant in the fifth season of the reality show Farma and finished fifth. Her singles since include "Bolje je ovako", a duet with Dejan Matić, in 2016 and "Med i mleko" in 2017.