Svetlana Aleksić Piljikić, known by her stage name Seka Aleksić, is a Serbian popular folk recording artist.
Background
Svetlana Aleksić was born in Zvornik, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She was born into an ethnically mixed marriage, the daughter of a Serb father Milorad Aleksić and Bosniak mother Ibrima (née Ramić). Her father hails from Niš, and currently lives in Loznica.
Career
Born in Bosnia, she moved to Serbia in 1992, at the start of the Bosnian War. After several years singing at discotheques throughout Europe, she had a breakthrough in 2002, after performing at a music festival. Her debut studio album Idealno tvoja was released 5 May 2002.
Several regional media outlets have erroneously reported birth name as being Zuhra Ramizaj, a rumor started by Jelena Karleuša in August 2009 on Facebook.
Her birth certificate, released to media 27 August 2013, proved that she was born as Svetlana Aleksić. Aleksić has a younger half-brother named Nedžad Ramić.
Her father worked as a machinist in Karakaj and her mother was an employee at the Drina football club She started out singing in kafanas before reaching fame.
She moved to Switzerland for two years to boost her career in clubs and discothèques.
After Switzerland she moved to Bijeljina. Aleksić signed with the record label Grand Production and released her debut studio album Idealno tvoja on 5 May 2002. In October 2002, she performed at the "Moravski biseri" music festival in Ćuprija.
In 2006, Seka had a part in the Serbian film We Are Not Angels 3: Rock & Roll Strike Back as Smokvica, the girlfriend of a popular-folk star.
Aleksić has her own clothing line, called "Šošonka", released at the same time as her third album. Her second clothing line is called "Queen" after her fourth album, Kraljica (Queen, 2007).