29 Facts About Stoja

Stoja Novakovic, known mononymously as Stoja, is a Serbian hardcore-folk singer.

Stoja released her first album, Kako je meni sada, in Lazarevic Production in 1998.

Stoja is currently signed to BN Music, and has recently released songs with IDJ and Balkan Star too.

Stoja's father Milan was born in Pukis, a village in the Lopare municipality in northeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, and her mother Katica was from Vojvodina.

Stoja was raised in Perlez, where she lived until the age of 25.

Stoja is said to have received her uncommon and strong voice from her father, Milan, but her talent was discovered by her teacher Sida.

Sida, who led the second class, suggested that Stoja should go to a singing competition that was organized for students from the first to fourth grade, as well as to be the first voice of the choir.

Stoja's father was not supportive of her singing career and they didn't speak for years because she decided to pursue that career path.

Stoja went to the local neighbourhood Slava where she sang for the first time.

Stoja continued singing, and eventually moved to Novi Sad, then Borca near Belgrade.

Stoja released her second studio album in 2000 under the name Samo.

Stoja released her next, fifth studio album in 2003 under the name Zakletva.

Stoja decided to completely change her appearance, lost more than twenty kilograms, dyed herself blue and released the ballad "Starija", which represented something completely different from the songs she had previously sung.

Stoja released the EP Osveta with two songs in 2006 with the band Juzni Vetar.

That year, Stoja was declared the best folk singer in BiH, and her song "Metak" won the "Belgrade Winner" award.

The title song and track "Kucka" stood out from this album, for which Stoja released attractive videos.

Stoja hired a proven good team of collaborators for this song as well, so success was not lacking.

In May 2018, Coby and Stoja released the duet "Cista hemija", whose lyrics were written by Petar Lugonja and Vukasin Jasnic, and music and arrangement by Veljkovic.

The last release in 2019 was Geto Gerila remix of Stoja's hit "Ciki, ciki" entitled "Aj, chiki, chiki" and published on 20 December.

Stoja released "Da li ona zna" on her YouTube channel in June 2023.

Stoja has been working with her long-time friend and lyricist Stevan Simeunovic who is author of almost all her songs since her career has started.

Stoja was from a rich farming family and much older than me.

Stoja looked after our son and me and did not allow anything to disturb us.

On 4 October 2011, Stoja found her mother Katica, who had heart problems and diabetes, dead in bed after being suspicious when Katica did not emerge from her bedroom that morning.

Stoja survived a car accident on 28 May 2012 when her car was totaled after being hit by a truck.

Stoja has said that her favorite singer is Semsa Suljakovic and she has frequently covered Suljakovic's songs at concerts and television appearances, and was even interviewed with her in June 2012.

Stoja is known for numerous cosmetic procedures and exceptional figure, which has accompanied her since the beginning of her career.

Stoja is one of the first people from Serbia's showbusiness world to admit that she went to Turkey for cosmetic surgery and that it cost a lot.

The surgeries were mostly corrective and aimed at getting a more beautiful figure, because Stoja has been struggling with "extra pounds" since the beginning of her career.