Kristina Kovač

Kristina Kovač
Кристина Ковач
Kristina KovačКристина Ковач
	Komuna (1996–1998); EMI (1998); KK Pro. (2007–present)

Kristina Kovač (

MTV Adria

Top 20.

She was one of the judges on the first series of X Factor Adria.^[1]

Biography

Kristina Kovač was born in

SFR Yugoslavia in 1974. She is the daughter of the prominent Serbian composer Kornelije Kovač

. Kristina travelled a lot while she was a child and also lived in many places in Europe, such as London. She worked in London for the management company Mismanagement until the second half of the 1990s.

In 2019 Kristina moved to Stockholm, Sweden with her family.

Career

Popularity and stardom

Kristina become popular with the group

hip hop artists. A video for Srebro i zlato was released and became one of the group's biggest hits. Due to being the biggest Serbian attraction, K2 released an album in Spain in Spanish for EMI in 1998. The debut Spanish album was named just K2 and was successful. It contained Spanish versions of their previous songs. For example, their No. 1 hit Dabadamdam became Debedamdam, Sestre became Hermanas, Ajmo u zivot became Vamos de fiesta etc. The same year the remix album called Vamos de fiesta – Remixes was also released for EMI

.

Hiatus, break, split up

In 1997, they released a compilation with Serbian hip hop artists, which also included two new K2 songs: "Srebro i zlato", and "Da li znaš". A video for Srebro i zlato was also released. In later days,

turbo folk

music got more attention in Serbia, so the girls split up and started doing solo projects.

Behind the scenes

Kristina started focusing mainly on composing. She composed melodies for many advertisements, and also formed the boy band Peti element in 2001 which was quite popular in those days. She also wrote music for many famous singers – from Tanja Banjanin to Karolina Gočeva. But, in 2005 she did the music for the movie Mi nismo anđeli 2 which was the biggest movie of 2005 in Serbia. She also sang one song Šta se dobije kad se dva anđela klade but it was not released as a single nor got any media attention. Those days she also performed the song Pesma za kraj and also made a video—it's one of her most important songs. Some journalists wondered if that song was meant for K2, although it was clear that it was finally a solo Kristina Kovač song.

Going solo

Kovač started working on her debut album in the summer of 2006. The album was called U Nebranom Grožđu and KK Production released it in the summer of 2007. The album contains ten songs. All songs were produced and written by her. The album features the Croatian band Cubismo, and

Suncane skale festivals. Kristina chose "Milica i ja" as the third single and made an unofficial statement on her official forum that her fans would be able to be in the video too. But, Kovač got pregnant during late 2007, and the release and filming of the video was scrapped. Kristina stated that she would "not film a video for Milica i ja" and that she will do a video for Ko instead, a fan and critic favourite. The video was not filmed, and Kovač gave birth to a girl called Tara on 1 July 2008. Her pregnancy remained almost publicly unnoticed, since Kristina did not want to make it "a public thing". After giving birth, Kovač started to work on the organisation of her first concert in Belgrade

and also continued to work on the story of the Ko video.