Arta Bajrami

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Arta Bajrami (born January 9, 1980 in Priština, Kosovo, SFR Yugoslavia) is a very well known Albanian singer. She is extremely popular among the young Albanian audience in Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro and Macedonia.

Arta is also known as The Albanian Queen of R&B. This is because she was the first singer to introduce an R&B style to the Albanian public and one of the first R&B artists in the whole Balkan region.

She has had the fortune of winning several music prizes in various Albanian music contests.

[edit] Family life

Arta grew up in a family where music was just as important as the daily food (Arta's father Zejnullah Bajrami a famous Albanian rhapsode). In a family of four, Arta's mother is the only member without a professional music background.

Arta's younger brother Artan, in the show business known as Don Arbas, is a highly talented contemporary Albanian songwriter and producer. He runs Arbasound, a company known for producing many great songs by Albanian performers. ÁÁŔŤÁ

[edit] Musical success

Arta launched her second album Femer Shqiptare in 2005 and Krejt Diqka Tjeter in 2001.

Arta's latest album Chocolata' from 2007 is considered as a Golden one. Incredibly but not surprisely, out of the twelve songs that this album contents, no fewer than seven of them became big hits, storming the Albanian charts.