Snežana Djurišić

Snežana Đurišić is a Serbian folk singer, born on 6 June 1959 in Gornji Milanovac, who spent her childhood in Vitkovac near Kraljevo. Her teacher Toma Martinović noticed her talent early, and she won the amateur contest Studio 6 vam pruža šansu with a Lepa Lukić song, which brought her a record deal.

In 1969, at the age of nine, she made her first record, the EP Baki i deki / Mami i tati on Diskos. In 1971 she sang at the Belgrade Spring festival and was invited to Tito's birthday, and by 1980 she had recorded sixteen singles for Jugoton, Beograd disk, PGP-RTB and Diskos. Her first LP, Moj dilbere, kud se šećeš, came out on Jugoton in 1979.

The breakthrough came with Nema ćara od bećara (1982, PGP RTB) and Mala soba tri sa tri (1983), whose hits were written by the composer Dragan Aleksandrić and the lyricist Radmila Todorović Babić. She also acted in the films Kamionđije opet voze (1983) and Kamionđije ponovo voze (1984). "Pričaj mi, pričaj" (1985) reached silver sales, Biće dana (1988) went platinum and began her work with the producer Dragan Stojković Bosanac, and Učiniću sve (1990) reached diamond sales. Istina (1996) brought "Kuće male" and Da mi je (2000) "Srna".

She sang duets with Šaban Šaulić, among them "Šmeker" (1996) and "Hej, Srbijo" (2009). At the Grand Festival she sang "Budi muško" in 2006 and "Lepi moj" in 2010, and in 2014 she won it with "Niko me nije voleo kao ti". From 2013 to 2015 she was a judge on Zvezde Granda.

She marked fifty years on stage with a concert at Sava Centar on 17 April 2019, and in 2020 she was named a National Estrada-Music Artist of Serbia. In October 2024 she gave two concerts at MTS Hall for 55 years of work, and in February 2026 she received the Golden Medal for Merits. She has been married since 1977 to the accordionist Slobodan Gvozdenović, and they have a daughter and a son.