Jadranka Stojaković, born in Sarajevo in 1950, was a Yugoslav pop singer-songwriter and author of numerous urban chansons and schlager songs from the late 1970s and 1980s. She is one of those singers whose name will never be forgotten, thanks to her extraordinary talent and the hits she left behind. ‘’Što te nema‘’, ‘’Ima neka tajna veza‘’, ‘’Sve smo mogli mi‘’, are just some of her songs that almost everyone in this speaking area knows.
She began her career in the late 1960s, in the group “Kombo 6”. She performed as a soloist for the first time in 1968 at the “Mladi pjevaju proljeću” festival. This was followed by participation in the television show “Na ti”, by Duško Trifunović, and in 1973 she performed at the Youth Festival in Subotica with the song “Ti ne znaš dom gdje živi on” and won first prize. She worked on sevdalinka arrangements of old city love songs, and on arrangements of songs by Aleksa Šantić and Desanka Maksimović in new musical arrangements.
She also worked on applied music for television (Children's programs of Television Sarajevo), and wrote the opening theme for the 14th Winter Olympic Games held in Sarajevo in 1984. She also sang backing vocals on records by "Index" and the group "Kod" (Sod), as well as in Vajta's song "Lejla", which represented Yugoslavia at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1981. She achieved a very successful career in Japan, where she found herself at the invitation of a Japanese journalist who heard her performance at the 14th Winter Olympic Games in Sarajevo. Since 2011, she has lived in Banja Luka, where she was employed as an editor in the music production of Radio Television of the Republic of Srpska. Due to a serious illness, she passed away in 2016 and was buried in the Alley of Distinguished Citizens at the Banja Luka City Cemetery in Vrbanja.
