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Željka "Martina" Kovačević (Serbian Cyrillic: Желјка "Мартина" Ковачевић) (born 2 June 1978) is a Bosnian Pop and Pop-Folk singer.

Biography
Martina Kovačević (born Željka Kovačević) was born in Doboj to an Ethnic Bosniak mother, Jasmina, and a Bosnian Croat father, Željko. Kovačević's paternal grandfather was an ethnic Croat from the town of Kiseljak who moved to Doboj in the 1950's. Kovačević had a troubled childhood while growing up, she rarely ever saw her mother who worked as a flight attendant, her father owned a disco-bar in which he would spent most of his time in. She learnt how to gamble from her father at the age of 5 and later also started singing. She was later employed as a waitress/bartender and singer in her father's disco-bar at the age of 14. When the Bosnian War broke out, her mother quit her job and came home, her father's disco-bar became a popular hangout place for soldiers. However this was marked as a problem for Kovačević, 'It was a nightmare, I was only 14 when I had to start working. I would really only get a break if it was a weekend. But on a working day it was living hell. I would go to school, come home and start work immediately. From 8 PM to 1 AM I worked as a singer and would sing songs that the soldiers would request' In 1995 Kovačević moved to Ljubljana with the help of her older cousin who is also a singer, Zlatko Mekić.

Albums

 * Sretna u Osamljenosti (1997)
 * Izgubljen u Prijevodu (1999)
 * Jedina Djevojka Na Svijetu (2001)
 * Iluminatori (2004)
 * The Best of Martina Kovačević (2005)
 * Tvrdi Dokaz (2008)

Personal Life
Kovačević has lived in Ljubljana and Belgrade during the early years of her career. Kovačević has a younger brother who lives with her in Zagreb. Kovačević still keeps a strong relationship with her cousin Zlatko Mekić. In 2004, during the recording phase of 'Iluminators' it was rumoured that Kovačević was secretly seeing Željko Joksimović, however both denied this. But sometime later in 2005 both confirmed that they were seeing each other. In 2007 it was rumoured that the two were going to get married however Joksimović denied it saying that although he loved her, he didn't want to get married just yet. In December 2008, Kovačević said that she and Joksimović were no longer seeing each other. Kovačević was briefly engaged to Bosnian businessman, Adnan Selimović, in 2011 and 2012.