Dejan Matić ( sr-cyr, Дејан Матић; born 26 April 1978) is a Serbian pop folk singer from Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is the twin brother of
Saša Matić
Aleksandar Matić ( sr-cyr, Александар Матић; born 26 April 1978), better known as Saša Matić is a Bosnian Serb pop-folk singer.
Life and career Early life
Matić was born on 26 April 1978 in Bihać, SFR Yugoslavia. He has a twi ...
, also a popular singer.
Early life
Dejan Matić was born in
Bihać
Bihać ( cyrl, Бихаћ) is a city and the administrative centre of Una-Sana Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is situated on the banks of river Una in northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovin ...
, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the son of Zoran and Dragica. He and his twin brother
Aleksandar "Saša" were born
prematurely and had a difficult first few weeks of life, having to be placed in
incubators in a
Zagreb
Zagreb ( , , , ) is the capital and largest city of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb stands near the international border between Croatia and Slov ...
maternity hospital. For unknown reasons, both babies became completely
blind only days after birth. The family relocated to
Belgrade in 1982, when the brothers were four years of age. It was in Belgrade that they attended music school, playing the piano. The Matić brothers finished their schooling in
Zemun
Zemun ( sr-cyrl, Земун, ; hu, Zimony) is a municipality in the city of Belgrade. Zemun was a separate town that was absorbed into Belgrade in 1934. It lies on the right bank of the Danube river, upstream from downtown Belgrade. The developme ...
.
Career
In October 2012 Matić performed the
pop duet "Čili" with
Milica Pavlović
Milica Pavlović ( sr-Cyrl, Милица Павловић, ; born 11 August 1991) is a Swiss-born Serbian singer. She gained fame in 2011/12 as a contestant on the singing competition show '' Zvezde Granda''. Pavlović has released four studio a ...
on ''Grand Show''.
Personal life
Matić married Jelena Ristić on 17 July 2012 in
Bežanija
Bežanija ( sr-cyr, Бежанија, ) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Novi Beograd, in the Syrmia region.
Location
Bežanija is located west of the downtown Belgrade, across the Sa ...
, a neighborhood in
Belgrade. She was four months pregnant on their wedding day with their first child, a son named Zoran, who was born in
Vienna
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on 17 December 2012. Their second child was born 21 March 2015.
Matić previously dated Slađana Mandić, a singer from
Sarajevo
Sarajevo ( ; cyrl, Сарајево, ; ''see names in other languages'') is the capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 275,524 in its administrative limits. The Sarajevo metropolitan area including Sarajevo ...
who later competed in the televised singing contest ''
Zvezde Granda'' in 2012.
Discography
*''Zaigraj'' (2002)
*''Željo moja'' (2004)
*''Sinonim za ljubav'' (2008)
*''Dala si mi svega osim ljubavi'' (2010)
*''100 života'' (2013)
*''Dejan Matić'' (2015)
References
External links
Discography at Discogs
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1978 births
Living people
People from Drvar
21st-century Serbian male singers
Singers from Belgrade
Bosnia and Herzegovina twins
Serbian turbo-folk singers
Blind musicians
Grand Production artists
Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina