Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Jelena Karleusa

Jelena Karleuša (Serbian Cyrillic: Јелена Карлеуша), also known as JK or Rainbow Killer, is a Serbian pop-folk singer.

Karleuša was born in Belgrade on August 17, 1978. She began her singing career in the mid-90s and gained popularity with her debut album, Ogledalce (1995), selling more than 100,000 copies worldwide, making it the best-selling album of the 90s in Serbia. She has since had #1 hits, most of which were written by Marina Tucaković. As of 2006, Jelena has released eight studio albums, which charted in Serbia, Montenegro and neighboring countries such as Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Bulgaria. She married Bojan Karić in 2004, but the marriage lasted only four months. She is now dating football player Duško Tošić and has moved to Bremen, Germany.

Karleuša has announced her pregnancy to Tošić on her official website, and is said to be due in the European spring. On June 28. 2008. she married Duško Tošić.