Violeta Miljković ( sr-Cyrl, Виолета Миљковић; born 18 December 1974), better known as Viki Miljković, is a
Serbia
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n singer and television personality.
Born in
Niš
Niš (; sr-Cyrl, Ниш, ; names of European cities in different languages (M–P)#N, names in other languages), less often spelled in English as Nish, is the list of cities in Serbia, third largest city in Serbia and the administrative cente ...
, she started her recording career in the early nineties and has released ten studio albums. Since 2015, Viki has been a judge and mentor on the televised singing show ''
Zvezde Granda''.
Career
Born and raised in
Niš
Niš (; sr-Cyrl, Ниш, ; names of European cities in different languages (M–P)#N, names in other languages), less often spelled in English as Nish, is the list of cities in Serbia, third largest city in Serbia and the administrative cente ...
, Viki started performing as a teenager alongside her brother who played the
accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German language, German ', from '—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a Reed (mou ...
. After getting discovered by the song-writing duo
Marina Tucaković
Marina Tucaković ( sr-Cyrl, Марина Туцаковић; 4 November 1953 – 19 September 2021) was a Serbian lyricist and songwriter. Born and raised in Belgrade, Serbia, Tucaković had a degree from the Economic Faculty at the Universit ...
and Aleksandar Radulović, she released her debut album, ''Loša sreća'' (''Bad Luck'', 1992), under
Diskos. However, it was only the following year that Viki saw significant commercial success with her second release and breakout hit "Nikom nije lepše nego nama" (''No One Has It Better Than Us''). Her music career peaked in the early
2000s
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with albums ''Mariš li'' (''Do You Care'', 2003) and ''Mahi, mahi'' (2005), released through
Grand Production
Grand Production ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Гранд продукција, separator=" / ", Grand produkcija) is a Serbian record label and production company predominantly focused on folk performers. The label produces the weekly television show ''Grand ...
. In 2006, Viki held her first solo concert in
Belgrade
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's
Sava Centar.
In 2015, Miljković began appearing on the televised singing competition ''
Zvezde Granda'' as a judge and mentor. In 2022, she had a winning contestant as a mentor with Nermin Handžić.
Personal life
Miljković graduated with a degree in musical arts from the
Faculty of Arts,
University of Pristina. In 2007, she married accordion player Dragan Tašković "Taške", with whom she has a son, born in October the same year. It has been noted that Miljković has maintained close friendships with singers
Ceca Ražnatović and
Sanja Đorđević, who served as
bridesmaids at her wedding.
Miljković and her husband publicly endorsed
Aleksandar Vučić
Aleksandar Vučić, (born 5 March 1970) is a Serbian politician serving as President of Serbia since 2017. A founding member of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), he previously served as President of the SNS from 2012 to 2023, Deputy Prim ...
for the
2023 Serbian parliamentary election.
Discography
;Studio albums
* ''Loša sreća'' (1992)
* ''Hajde, vodi me odavde'' (1994)
* ''Svadbe neće biti'' (1995)
* ''Tunel'' (1996)
* ''Kud puklo da puklo'' (1997)
* ''Okrećem ti leđa, tugo'' (1998)
* ''Godine'' (2001)
* ''Mariš li'' (2003)
* ''Mahi, mahi'' (2005)
* ''Ovde se ne plače'' (2009)
;Compilations
* ''The best of'' (2011)
See also
*
Music of Serbia
*
List of singers from Serbia
*
Turbo-folk
References
External links
*
1974 births
Living people
Musicians from Niš
Serbian turbo-folk singers
21st-century Serbian women singers
Grand Production artists
University of Pristina alumni
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