Emina Jahovic Sandal is a Serbian model, actress and singer-songwriter. She is very popular across the entire area of former Yugoslavia and Eastern Europe for her multi-faceted persona. Emina is fluent in Serbian and English while she also speaks a bit of Turkish, Slovenian, and Bulgarian. She is often referred to as the Turkish JLo for her artistic similarities to Jennifer Lopez. Her Turkish single ‘Kimse Yok Mu?’ further popularized this image.
Early Life and Bio: Emina Jahovic
Emina Jahovic was born on January 1st, 1982 in Novi Pazar, Serbia into a well-off family. Her mother, Senija Jahovic, is a pediatrician while her father, Nusret Jahovic, was a highly successful and prominent cardiothoracic surgeon. She is presently 40 years old and her birth sign is Capricorn. When she was 13, her father passed away.
Education: Emina Jahovic
By the age of seven, she attended the ‘Meša Selimović’ primary school in Novi Pazar and also began taking guitar lessons at the ‘Mokranjac Music School’. Apart from music, she developed interest in basketball too as her brother Mirsad excelled in the sport and she began her training in basketball in the 6th grade. She received her BA in management from the ‘Faculty of Management’ at ‘Braća Karić University’.
Siblings: Emina Jahovic
She is the youngest of three children. Her elder sister, Sabina Jahovic, is a child psychiatrist and lives in Belgrade, while her elder brother, Mirsad Türkcan, is the first Turkish basketball player to play in the NBA. The siblings have a very good relation between each other and love each other very much.
Personal Life: Emina Jahovic
She married Mustafa Sandal in 2008. Her husband is a popular Turkish pop singer with over twenty million album sales. She and her husband share a very comfortable and loving relationship with each other. She has two sons – Yaman (born in 2008) and Yavuz (born in 2012). The children speak both Turkish and Bosnian.
Career: Emina Jahovic
Emina Jahovic participated in several local and national festivals and these events played an important role in her early music career. She released her first album ‘Osmi dan’ in 2001. After years of successful festival performances, she released ‘Radije ranije’, her second album in 2005. In 2008 she released an English single ‘Exhale’. The song was nominated for “World’s Best Song” in Worldsings.com’s music competition. In 2009 her music career tasted success with the release of her third album, ‘Vila’.
The song, ‘Med’, won the ‘Best Song’ award in the 1st Balkan Music Awards in which she was nominated for ‘Best Female Performer’ in the Balkans 2009. From 2010 to 2011, she worked in the television soap opera ‘Lale Devri’ in the lead role. The TV show became very popular and aired in over 30 countries. In 2013, she released her singles ‘Nedostaješ’ and ‘Žena zmaj’ and went on to perform on ‘Ami G Show’ on ‘RTV Pink’. She was also announced as a judge and coach of the popular TV show ‘X Factor Adria’.
Awards and Recognitions
She participated in 2005 ‘Music Festival Budva’ with her song ‘Nije više tvoja stvar’ and won the ‘Best Songwriter’ award. In 2007, she featured in Flamingosi’s single ‘La gitana’, which was a commercially successful song. The music video was awarded the ‘Best Video Clip’ in the Prince Awards’ at the ‘Sunčane skale’ festival in Montenegro. On November 29, 2011 ‘HELLO! Srbija’ magazine named Jahovic ‘Person of the Year’.
Net Worth
Emina has earned a very good net worth throughout her successful career. Her exact net worth is not known but it is estimated that she has a net worth of around $10 million. She has earned this amount from her successful acting and music career. Her husband is also a famous singer who has earned a good net worth from his career. The family is living a luxurious and peaceful life through huge net worth of both.
Social Media
Emina Jahovic is very active on social networking sites. She is active on Facebook and Instagram. She has over 745k followers on her Facebook account. Emina also has 640k followers on her Instagram account. She does not have a official Twitter account.
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