S T O J A - Stojanka Novaković (Cyrillic: Стојанка Стоја Новаковић), was born on June 4 1972 in Perlez (near Zrenjanin - former Yugoslavia). Stoja has a very special extremely strong "hypnotizing" voice, said to come from her father, Milan. She released her first album Kako je meni sada in 1998 for Lazarevic Production. A short time later, the Grand Production label owned by Lepa Brena, signed her, and Stoja quickly became one of the Balkans most popular and respected singers.