Known For: Serbian actor, rapper and singer (born 1989)
Category: Actors
Country: Serbia
Date of Birth: Wednesday, 02 August 1989
Language Serbian
Relja Popović is a Serbian actor, rapper and singer. Before pursuing a solo career with the single "Beograd još živi" (2015), he rose to prominence as the member of the hip hop duo Elitni Odredi, alongside Vlada Matović. He is the co-founder of the record label Made In BLKN Records.
| BirthPlace | Belgrade |
| Mother | Zoja Begoli |
| Spouses | Nikolija Jovanović |
| Website | https://blkn.rs/ |
| Wikipedia | Relja_Popović |
| reljarelja |
Popović was born on August 2, 1989, in Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia. His mother, Zoja Begolli (née Đoković), was a ballet dancer at the National Theatre in Belgrade and lecturer at the Academy of Arts, and his father, Srđan Popović, worked as a sports journalist for the daily newspaper Večernje novosti. Popović lost his father in 1991, and his mother remarried to Kosovar actor Faruk Begolli, whom she divorced after 17 years of marriage. She died in 2017. Popović grew up in the Paviljoni neighborhood of New Belgrade. Relja stated that he found passion for hip-hop as a child, being exposed by his older brother Miša to artists such as Eminem, Jay-Z and Juice. Popović graduated from the High School of Hospitality and Tourism in downtown Belgrade. In May 2008, he was shot in stomach while defending his girl friend from a middle age man at a pub, and had his kidney and spleen removed because of it. The assaulter was subsequently sentenced to six and a half years in prison.
