Bleona Qereti with albanian and kosova flag
Bleona was born on May 14, 1979, in Albania.Finally she decided to show her real birthday on wikipedia and changed the year of her birth from 1985 to 1979. At age 5, she began singing and performing[3] at Albanian music festivals.[2] She released her first single, "Lermeni (Let Me Be Free)" in 1996, and a year later released her first album, Kam Qejfin Tim (I Run My Own Game).[2] Bleona's first major tour took place that year, and she performed over 25 summer shows at concert halls in Switzerland and Germany. Also in 1997 she toured in support of the Albanian Democratic Party (headed by Sali Berisha), and released a music video for the track "Kam Qejfin Tim." Since then she has released approximately one new music video a year.[3]
At age thirteen, Bleona's father and mother began encouraging her to leave singing and go to finance school. Her parents later sent her to a German school to learn the German language, and she can speak and sing in English, Albanian, Italian, and German.[2] She studied the "Stanisklavski System" of acting, graduating with a BA from the Academy of Performing Arts in Tirana.[3] She also plays violin.[2]