Elena Velevska is a Macedonian

Macedonians (ethnic group)

The Macedonians also referred to as Macedonian Slavs: "... the term Slavomacedonian was introduced and was accepted by the community itself, which at the time had a much more widespread non-Greek Macedonian ethnic consciousness...

 turbo folk and popular music

Popular music

Popular music belongs to any of a number of musical genres "having wide appeal" and is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. It stands in contrast to both art music and traditional music, which are typically disseminated academically or orally to smaller, local...

 singer. Due to her dress and musical style, which resembles that of Svetlana Ražnatović, as well as her strong presence in the yellow press

Yellow journalism

Yellow journalism or the yellow press is a type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers. Techniques may include exaggerations of news events, scandal-mongering, or sensationalism...

 of the successor states of Yugoslavia

Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

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, she is at times called "the Macedonian Ceca". In 2007, she conducted a world tour, playing in front of large diaspora

Diaspora

A diaspora is "the movement, migration, or scattering of people away from an established or ancestral homeland" or "people dispersed by whatever cause to more than one location", or "people settled far from their ancestral homelands".The word has come to refer to historical mass-dispersions of...

 audiences.

In 2008 it was announced that she is expexcting a baby and therefore is having a break from the music.She also marry in beginning of the year in Ohrid

Ohrid

Ohrid is a city on the eastern shore of Lake Ohrid in the Republic of Macedonia. It has about 42,000 inhabitants, making it the seventh largest city in the country. The city is the seat of Ohrid Municipality. Ohrid is notable for having once had 365 churches, one for each day of the year and has...

Albums

• Пу пу машала (Pu pu mashala)
• Говорот на телото (Govorot na teloto)
• Жена огнена (Žena ognena)

External links

• Official Website
• Весна Миленковска: "Пејачка со глас, а не со става", Vest, June 26, 2002.
• Весна Миленковска: "Кога ги масирам, како да се мои", Vest, May 5, 2007.
• Весна Миленковска: "Елена Велевска на концерти во Швајцарија", Vest, March 1, 2006.
• "Zlatni noze!", Svet 455, March 9, 2006.