Emina Jahović

**Emina Jahović Sandal** (born 15 January 1982) is a well-known Serbian-Turkish singer-songwriter, model, and actress.

She is of Bosniak origin and is married to Mustafa Sandal, the leading Turkish pop star.

## Biography

Emina grew up in a Bosnian Muslim family in Novi Pazar, Serbia. Her brother is Mirsad Türkcan, the first Turkish basketball player to play in the NBA. She majored in Management at Braća Karić University in Belgrade.

She is 5'10" (178 cm) tall and is an official face of the Macedonian fashion label "Kara". She is quite popular across the entire area of former Yugoslavia and all around Eastern Europe. Emina is also known in Iran for her role in "Omre Gole Laleh" and is widely-recognized amongst the diaspora communities of the Former Yugoslavia in the United States.

Her sister-in-law is Dina Džanković, the last beauty queen to have the title of Miss Serbia and Montenegro.

She has two sons, Yaman (b. 2008) and Yavuz (2012).

## Career

In 2000, she won the youth festival Zlatna staza with the song "Samo ti, moja muziko". Her debut album "Tačka" was released in 2001 by Dino Merlin, the world-wide known artist.

In 2002, she participated in BH Eurosong with the song "U, la-la" and received an award at the Radio Festival in Sarajevo.

In 2003, she participated in the Sunčane Skale festival and won the third place with her song "Uzalud se budim". That made her one of the most popular artists in the former Yugoslav republics.

In 2005, she released her second album called "Radije ranije" through "City Records". In the 2005 Budvanski Festival she won the award for the best songwriter.

In 2008, Emina released her maxi single in English called "Exhale" in NYC. This album is produced by Bojan Dugić, the GRAMMY Awards voting member. Emina's 2008 video clip of "Još ti se nadam" is one of the most expensive music videos in Serbian music history.

In 2009, Emina Jahović's third studio album entitled "Vila" was released through PGP RTS.

In 2010, she was nominated to represent Serbia at the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Ti kvariigro" that is composed by Goran Bregović for her.

She also performed in the 2013 Dosso Dossi Fashion Show on January 9, 2013 while Adriana Lima was on the runway.

Emina Jahović Sandal is known for resemblance to the Spanish actress Penélope Cruz.

### Albums

- _Tačka_ (2002)
- _Radije ranije_ (2005)
- _Exhale_ (2008)
- _Vila_ (2009)

### Singles

- _Tačka_ (2002)
- _Osmi dan_ (2002)
- _Uzalud se budim_ (2003)
- _Tvoja greška_ (2005)
- _Dal' ona zna_ (2006)
- _Nije vise tvoja stvar_ (2006)
- _Pola ostrog noza_ (2006)
- _Cool žena_ (2007)
- _Exhale_ (2008)
- _Još ti se nadam_ ft. Saša Kovačević(2009)
- _Pile moje_ (2009)
- _Med_ ft. Dino Merlin (2009)
- _Ti kvariigro_ (2010)
- _Gospodine_ ft. Nataša Bekvalac (2011)
- _Posle mene_ (2011)
- _Beograd priča_ feat. Dženan Lončarević (2012)
- _Da mogu_ (2012)
- _Kimse Yok Mu?_ (2012)

### International music charts

|rowspan="2"|Year|rowspan="2"|Song|colspan="13"|Ranking|rowspan="2"|Album||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="2"|2002|"Tačka"|style="text-align:center;"|5|style="text-align:center;"|4|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|5|style="text-align:center;"|—||_Tačka_|
|"U, la-la"|style="text-align:center;"|7|style="text-align:center;"|3|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|7|style="text-align:center;"|—|rowspan=""|_BH Eurosong_|||
||2005|"Dal' ona zna"|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|5|style="text-align:center;"|3|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|4|style="text-align:center;"|3|style="text-align:center;"|2|style="text-align:center;"|2|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|56||_Radije ranije_|
|rowspan="4"|2009|"Med"|style="text-align:center;"|2|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|3|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|5|style="text-align:center;"|7|style="text-align:center;"|4|style="text-align:center;"|5|style="text-align:center;"|2|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|71|rowspan="4"|_Vila_|
|"Još ti se nadam"|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|5|style="text-align:center;"|13|style="text-align:center;"|9|style="text-align:center;"|11|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|43|||||
|"Vila"|style="text-align:center;"|7|style="text-align:center;"|10|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|7|style="text-align:center;"|6|style="text-align:center;"|—|||||
|"Pile moje"|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|3|style="text-align:center;"|2|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|5|style="text-align:center;"|5|style="text-align:center;"|4|style="text-align:center;"|2|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|84|||||
||2010|"Ti kvariigro"|style="text-align:center;"|2|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|3|style="text-align:center;"|3|style="text-align:center;"|—||_Eurosong_|
||2011|"Gospodine"|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|2|style="text-align:center;"|2|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|—||_Gospodine_|
||2012|"Kimse Yok Mu?"|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—|style="text-align:center;"|—||_Kimse Yok Mu?_|

## Filmography

|Country|Year|Title|Role|class="unsortable"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||2010-2011|_Lale Devri_|Lale Taşkıran Ilgaz|Leading role (Show TV, FOX)||
||2013-2014|_ტიტების დრო_|ლალე ტაშკირან ილგაზი|წამყვანი როლი (რუსთავი 2)||
||2011-2012|_Polje lala_|Lala Taškran Ilgaž †|Leading role (RTV Pink)||
||2012|_Omre Gole Laleh_|Laleh Tashkyran Aylgas|Leading role||

## Other websites

- TTNET Müzik Emina Jahović Page
- TTNET Müzik Emina Sandal Page
- Emina Jahović  at MTV
- Emina Jahović on iTunes
- Emina Sandal on iTunes
- Emina Jahović's Official Page @yaemina on Instagram
- Emina Jahović's Official Page on Facebook
- Emina Jahović Sandal for Today I'm Wearing at _Vogue Türkiye_

## Infobox (musical artist)

- **embed**: yes
- **background**: solo_singer


## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Emina Jahović
- **image**: Emina Jahović 2013 (2).jpg
- **caption**: Jahović in 2013
- **native name**: Емина Јаховић
- **birth place**: Novi Pazar, Socialist Republic of Serbia, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
- **relatives**: Mirsad Türkcan  (brother)
- **children**: 2