Jadranka Barjaktarović

Barjaktarović was born in the town of Berane, where she grew up and completed primary and secondary education.^[1] In 2005, Barjaktarović finished third place in the second season of Zvezde Granda. Two years later, she won the first prize at the festival in Cetinje with the song "Tvoja noć i moja zora" (lit. 'Your Night and My Dawn'). In 2009, Barjaktarović released her first album under Grand Production titled Krv sam tvoja (lit. 'I am your blood'). Apart from releasing six songs within the album, there were also "Laka" (lit. 'Light'), "Neotporna" (lit. 'Irresistible'), and "Tvoja noć i moja zora" (lit. 'Your Night and My Dawn').^[3]

In September 2020, Barjaktarović gained public attention after she covered a song by Serbian singer Mitar Mirić at a performance in Podgorica titled "Ne može nam niko ništa" (lit. 'Nobody can do anything to us'), with reworked title and lyrics "Ne može nam niko ništa, jači smo od Srbije" (lit. 'Nobody can do anything to us, we are stronger than Serbia').^[4][5] After the performance, a large number of singers and media from Montenegro and Serbia condemned her performance.^[6]

In June 2021, she performed a song "Sude mi" by Miroslav Škoro and Marko Perković Thompson which glorifies Croatian war general Ante Gotovina.^[7][8]