Everyone knows that Dua Lipa is a world star originally from Kosovo. But did you know that she is also connected to our country?
Her parents Anesa and Dukagjin were born in Pristina. Dua once revealed that her grandmother from her mother’s side is Bosnian.
“So much happened in the lives of my parents, my grandparents,” she said in a 2018 interview with the Guardian. When the breakup of Yugoslavia began, the singer’s parents moved to London. They returned to Kosovo when Dua was 11 years old.
In 2021, she recommended her followers on Instagram to watch the movie “Quo Vadis, Aida?” by Jasmila Zbanic and stated that it is a work that everyone must see.
“This is a very powerful story that brought me to tears and made me remember all the heartbreaking stories I was told growing up,” she wrote.
Dukagjin’s father, Seit Lipa, was a well-known historian who headed the Kosovo Institute of History in the 1990s. He was fired when the war broke out in Kosovo.
“When the Serbs came, they wanted many historians to rewrite the history of Kosovo. They wanted to change it so that it says that Kosovo was always part of Serbia and never part of Yugoslavia. My grandfather was among the people who did not want to do that, so he lost his job,” Dua stated earlier, Klix.ba writes.
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