Slavica Ćukteraš

Slavica Ćukteraš is a Serbian pop-folk singer, born on 28 January 1985 in Šabac. She first sang in front of a microphone at six, a song of Lepa Brena's, played the violin for four years, finished the lower music school in clarinet and went on to the theory department of the secondary music school. She names Bijelo Dugme, Zdravko Čolić and Ceca as influences, and she also writes lyrics.

She became known to a wide audience in 2004 in the first season of the talent show Zvezde Granda, where she placed sixth in the final, and her first song, "Život mi oduzmi", came out the same year. Her debut album, "Nema pravila", followed on Grand Production in 2005.

The second album, "Ćiribu, ćiriba" (2006), came with a busy year: she sang "Mrgud" at the Grand Festival and the duet "Sudbina" with Nemanja Nikolić at Zlatiborska pesma, and recorded "Voli me" with Bane Mojićević. With "Exclusiva" (2008) she returned to the Grand Festival with "Ja te samo podsećam na nju", which placed sixth in the final, and "Nevreme" (2011) was her fourth album. In 2012 she sang "Zrno otrova" with Al Dino at the Grand Festival and released "Krvna slika" and "Tačno je", a duet with Dado Polumenta.

After "Nevreme" she withdrew from the stage, and about a year and a half later she left Grand Production. She came back in 2015 with "Prosjak" at the Pink Music Festival, then stepped back again, married and had a daughter in 2016. In 2018, after a three-year break, she returned with "Da bih s tobom ostala", "Budi samo moj" and "U prolazu", followed by "Pun gas" (2019), "Za kurvara" (2021), "Sve će biti okej" with Lena Čolak (2022), "Najdraže ništa" with Nenad Jovanović (2024) and "Krvav dijamant" (2025). She has also sung "Tamo daleko" and "Jači pol" with other singers, Tanja Savić among them.

Slavica Ćukteraš is best known for "Prevari me", "Vodka", "Zvaćeš je mojim imenom", "Mrgud", "Ćiribu, ćiriba", "Manastir" and "Manija".