Vasilisa

Vasilisa, born Brankica Vasić in Priština, is a Serbian singer of the traditional music of the Balkans, performing old folk songs of Serbia, Kosovo and Metohija and Macedonia. In her home town she finished primary and secondary music school at the Stevan Mokranjac school, in music theory and solo singing, and she graduated from the Music Academy in Belgrade, where her teachers included Radmila Bakočević and Mladen Jagušt. She sang in the choir of the Yugoslav People's Army, the Radio Belgrade choir and the Collegium Musicum choir under Darinka Matić Marović.

Outside Serbia she became known through her work with Goran Bregović. For Patrice Chéreau's film La Reine Margot she recorded "Le Matin", and she also sang on Bregović's music for Emir Kusturica's Arizona Dream; the two soundtracks came out in 1993 and 1994. Her performance of "Zajdi, zajdi" is on the soundtrack of the film Savior, produced by Oliver Stone. She has also worked with Vasil Hadžimanov, with Sanja Ilić and Balkanika, and with Jovan Maljoković.

Her albums are Bila sam ljubav druga tvog (Jugohit, 1990), Gora ječi - najlepše narodne pesme (Take It Or Leave It Records, 2002), Amanet (PGP RTS, 2005) and Uspomena (PGP RTS, 2013). She is the author of several songs on them, including "Gora ječi" and "Kasaba" on Gora ječi. All of her releases and music hold the status of artistic works of cultural importance for Serbia.