Olivera Katarina Оливера Катарина | |
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| Birth name | Olivera Petrović |
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| Born | 5 March 1940 Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
| Genres | Serbian traditional, folk, chanson, Romani music, pop |
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| Years active | 1964–present |
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| Website | http://oliverakatarina.weebly.com/ |
Olivera Katarina (née Petrović; Serbian Cyrillic: Оливера Катарина, née Петровић; born 5 March 1940), also previously known as Olivera Vučo (Serbian Cyrillic: Оливера Вучо) and Olivera Šakić (Serbian Cyrillic: Оливера Шакић), is a Serbian actress, singer and writer. She was one of the leading stars of Yugoslav cinema in the 1960s and the 1970s, and is probably the best known for her performance in Aleksandar Petrović's film I Even Met Happy Gypsies (1967), which won the Grand Prix at the 1967 Cannes Film Festival.
As a singer, Olivera Katarina has performed music of various genres, varying from Serbian traditional to pop music, and in numerous languages. Her version of "Đelem, đelem", which she performed in I Even Met Happy Gypsies, has been considered one of the best renditions of that song ever recorded.[1]