Emina Jahović

Emina Jahović Sandal (Serbian Cyrillic: Емина Јаховић Caндaл, born January 15, 1982, in Novi Pazar, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia), is a popular Serbian pop singer of Bosniak origin[citation needed]. She is known as Emina Türkcan in Turkey after her elder brother Mirsad Türkcan, a naturalised Turkish basketball player. She is married to Turkish singer Mustafa Sandal.

Biography

She has completed basic school of music, performed in the choir of her hometown and took part in the local folklore. While in high school, she took part in several theatre performances, including Antigone. Since some of the roles included singing, she realized that singing was her real passion.
In 2000, she won the youth festival "Zlatna staza" (Golden Path) in Montenegro, with the song "Samo ti, moja muziko." In 2002, Emina participates in the Bosnian Eurovision pre-selection BH Eurosong with the song "U, la-la."
"U, la-la" was the introduction to her debut album "Tačka" (Dot) composed by famous Bosnian singer and songwriter Dino Merlin. The album reached a high popularity in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and other Former Yugoslavia states, Most popular songs from the album are "Tačka", "Osmi dan" (Eighth Day), "Kad si sa njom" (When You're With Her), "Odbojka" (Volleyball).In 2002, the song "Osmi dan" was awarded the "Silver Hit" award at Radio Fest BIH 2002. In 2003, she won a "Golden Star" award at the "Oskar popularnosti" awards show held in Sarajevo.
In 2003. She participated in the "Sunčane Skale" festival in Herceg Novi, Montenegro and won the third place with her song "Uzalud se budim". That made her one of the most popular artists in the Former Yugoslavia states. She took part at the festival again in 2004 with the song "Voljela te il' ne voljela".
In 2005 she released her second album called "Radije ranije" for one of the largest Serbian record labels, "City Records". It included the songs "Radije ranije", "Tvoja greška" and the mega-hit "Da l' ona zna". She took part in Budvanski Festival 2005,with the song Nije više tvoja stvar,and won the award for the best song writer.
In 2008 she released her maxi single "Exhale" which was completely produced and recorded in New York City under the production wing of Bojan Dugic,who worked with one of the biggest names in music today.
In December 2008 she will be releasing a new single "Jos ti se nadam" a duet with Serbian teenage sensation Sasa Kovacevic. The video clip was shot at couple of locations in Turkey,and will be one of the most expensive videos in Serbian music video production so far.
Emina is 5'10" (178 cm) tall and she is also known for her resemblance to Penelope Cruz. She has been approached by many foreigners in Sarajevo, who thought she was Penelope. Emina is currently a student of management at the "Braća Karić" University in Belgrade. Emina is also an official face of the Macedonian fashion label "Kara".
In Turkey she is particularly famous for being married to Mustafa Sandal. Emina and Sandal got married in İstanbul on January 13, 2008. And they had their first son Yaman Sandal on August 8, 2008. In the summer of 2008, Emina released a new album in English called Exhale.


Albums
Tačka (2002)
Radije ranije (2005)
Exhale (2008)
Vila (May 21, 2009)

Singles
Tacka (2002)
Osmi DAN (2002)
Uzalud se budim(2003)
Tvoja greška (2005)
Da'l ona zna (2006)
Nije vise tvoja stvar (2006)
Pola ostrog noza (2006)
Cool Žena (2007)
Exhale (2008)
Jos ti se nadam feat. Sasa Kovacevic (2008)