Talk:Lepa Brena

Cinematic career
I think we need to highlight her cinamatic career a little more. I distinctly remember her in some awful movies in the 1980's involving car chases. rasblue 22:09, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Criptic reference: "Jetblue Airways"
Could someone please explain the reference to "Jetblue Airways"? It is very strange and it is not explained at all in the paragraph or anywhere in the article. Blind cyclist (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 18:31, 3 June 2011 (UTC).

Muslim not Bosniak
In her time term Bosniak didn't existed. She was born in Muslim family and never declarate as Muslim especially not as Bosniak, nor her parents. She moved to Novi Sad and Belgrade in her early age and speak in Serbian language form of ekavian and she terminated and tided herself to Serbia. Please do not citate Croatian WRITTEN sources that she declarate this or that way.

Also her carere started in Serbia not in Bosnia.79.175.97.92 (talk) 10:55, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
 * In this interview she states that she started her career with a gig in Pula (Croatia), at Verudella, with the band Slatki Greh:
 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFYywOzzXS8&feature=related from 2:32 Blind cyclist (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 18:28, 3 June 2011 (UTC).

Jelena???
I'm interested in knowing where you got the information from that she changed her name to Jelena and converted to Orthodox Christianity?

Those were just rumors.

Websites
Stop adding fan webites as official! Smooth O 17:02, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

I find it quite unusual that she never sang in the Ijekavian dialect like most Bosnians did because she came from there and their language is either Ijekavian dialect or Ikavian dialect depending wherever you originated —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.95.114.241 (talk) 04:17, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Hidden away
Why is this article hidden away with redlinks at Fahreta Živojinović and Fahreta Zivojinovic, even though that is the name which appears bolded in the intro and at the top of the infobox? Gene Nygaard (talk) 15:39, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

That's the biggest mystery about Lepa Brena. I can't recall that she was ever asked about this, or that she had ever explained why she chose to speak in the Ekavian dialect. It's very strange. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.174.72.242 (talk) 15:47, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

On controversies
Song Zivela Jugoslavia ("Live Yugoslavia!") that Lepa Brena recorded together with Miroslav Ilic was hardly "controversial" in the early eighties. Keep in mind that Tito, who was a Croatian communist who ruled Yugoslavia since the end of the WW2 until his death in 1980 just passed away when the song was recorded and the entire Yugoslavia was overwhelmed with, for majority of the people, mixture of national pride, sorrow for the loss of the "benevolent" communist dictator Tito, and an unease for their future.

Yugoslavia only became "controversial" in the early 90-ies, with wholehearted support of Germany and Austria, i.e. those European countries who had an axe to grind against former Yugoslavia because of their role in both World Wars. Yugoslavia was the only country in the Balkans, together with Greece, that was allied with the US and UK against Germany and Austria. So, I am not quite sure where the author of the article draws his conclusions, since the breakup of Yugoslavia started ten years after the song was recorded. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.52.132.116 (talk) 08:16, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

In defence of the author, i also remember how much the song was despised by nationalists. There were ALWAYS people against the "united yugoslavia" (as the author puts it) that brena loved so much and it seemed that especially after recording this song, she became a kind of symbol of socialism. As a yugoslav, i (personally) could not say in all honesty that "yugoslavia" only became controversial after the war broke out. I was still growing up in the 80s but i do remember being aware of an ever increasing nationalist/socialist division amongst yugoslavs, even at a fairly young age. In fact, my parents would not let me play "Jugoslovenka" too loud on the stereo in case our nationalist neighbors were to hear! Ludicrous, in retrospect; i guess i'm just trying to say that i, too, remember how certain brena songs would really rub some people up the wrong way! :-) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.181.26.168 (talk) 23:38, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Removed from the article
''For those who say Lepa Brena has not converted to the Serbian Orthodox faith, one should go the Serbian Church Ostrog in Belgrade on Bezanska Kosa. Here you will see the truth.''

--  Bojan  14:35, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Latest Brena's Victourius Tour 2009 attendants numbers are not totally correct!
There were ~ 15.000 attendants at Lepa Brena's concert in Mostar ( The stadium 'Bijeli Brijeg', with 9000 seats). Your listed number of 10.000 is NOT correct. Also, there were ~ 15.000 people attending Lepa Brena's concert in Zagreb (Arena, 20.000 seats). Your number of 12.000 is not correct. Sourses for this? Here you are: http://folk08.bloger.hr/post/spektakularni-koncert-lepe-brene-u-mostaru/1517876.aspx

http://www.naslovi.net/tema/117322

Please correct the numbers of attendants. Thanks; —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.86.103.88 (talk) 01:22, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

'Ethnic Bosniak, but declares as Yugoslav'
I find this definition problematic and beg to correct it in order not to confuse the public worldwide, since articles in English as world's de facto lingua franca are international. Objectively, in former Yugoslavia there is only one ethicity, name it Yugoslav, Serbo-Croatian, whatever, and it includes modern nations of Serbs, Croats and Muslims/Bosniaks, and several minor ones like Montenegrins, Bunjevci, Goranci etc. There is no 'objective criteria' to determine one's ethnicity in these terms but one's own preference and affiliation. Serbs are generally Eastern-Orthodox, Croats Roman-Catholics and Bosniaks Muslims, but there are numerous individual exceptions which include Eastern-Orthodox or Muslim Croats, Roman-Catholic Bosniaks etc. Brena is from Bosnia (region) and comes from Muslim family (religion) and considers herself as 'Yugoslav' (South Slavic, or more precisely, South Slavic from former Yugoslavia). Bosniak nation was established under this name only after the break-up of Yugoslavia, and with Bosnian Muslims as its core. There is no way that anyone or anyone's family who comes from Bosnian Muslim ancestry can retroactively be proclaimed as Bosniak by (subjective) ethnicity. Not all Bosnian Muslims are Bosniaks, some of them consider themselves parts of Serbian, Croatian or (former) Yugoslavian nation. Brena is one of them.

I appeal to everyone that this should be considered seriously. 109.92.78.98 (talk) 19:56, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

They need pictures!
Should fix page Lepa Brena urgently! They need pictures! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dejan 97 (talk • contribs) 08:39, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

When will Lepa Brena get the picture?
I would like to ask you to put more new picture! This is really old! --Dejan 97 (talk) 18:59, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

Protect this page??
Can we protect this page so that IP's cannot edit it?? --DemirBajraktarevic (talk) 09:57, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

93.86.34.205
The IP editor "93.86.34.205" who in this edit admitted to being a Serb nationalist, has been for the better part of an hour reverting sourced information on this page and adding a "Serbian Cyrillic" translation of Brena's name (she has never said that she's Serbian and it really does not matter how long she has lived in the Serbia, she is from Tuzla, which is in a part of Bosnia that is not in the Serb Republic, nor has ever been), making a bigger point of her living in Serbia than is needed, and removed an explanation and her denial to a rumor about her legally changing her birth name to a Serb name --DemirBajraktarevic (talk) 18:34, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

Definition of Serbian nationality
Identity, ethnicity and nationality are not synonyms. Are Bosnian expatriates living in Serbia for 35 years aliens? This is stated in the above section by. I would like to ask if there is a concensus that Lepa Brena should not be viewed of or described as a Serbian national. Could anybody then explain why she is described as poznata srpska pevačica and srpska folk diva Lepa Brena?--Z oupan 01:54, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

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