Ceca fills Berlin hall for 5,000 while sick

Svetlana Ceca Raznatovic performed on October 3, 2026, at the sold-out Uber Eats Music Hall in Berlin, and told reporters after the concert that she had gone on stage sick. The hall holds about 5,000 people, and according to Telegraf, Kurir and Mondo, Ceca is the only Balkan singer to have filled it.

The concert at Uber Eats Music Hall

She arrived in Berlin on Friday, the day before the show, and stayed in the royal suite of a hotel that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have previously used. On stage she wore a black sequined lace dress with one open shoulder and a deep slit.

She addressed the audience as soon as she walked out:

Good evening, Berlin! Good evening, dear people who came from other cities and countries. We’ll have a great time tonight, I promise you! I hope you enjoy it, that was our goal too, that’s why we’re all here together. Let’s get started cheerfully right away

Ceca said that from the stage, then opened the concert with one of her hits. The same hall has hosted Bob Dylan, Jason Derulo, Macklemore, Erykah Badu, Khalid and Maneskin, and among regional acts Zdravko Colic, Bijelo Dugme and Dino Merlin.

A plaque from the Berlin Wall and a tree in the Fame Forest

After the concert, the hall’s management presented her with a plaque bearing the hall’s logo, her name and the date of the show. The plaque is made from a piece of the Berlin Wall, and according to Telegraf, that is a tradition for performers who fill the hall.

She also received a registered tree in the Fame Forest, an environmental project that includes every artist who plays Uber Eats Music Hall or the neighboring Uber Arena. The singer said of the evening:

Tonight was truly my night, both with the audience and with the awards. I received this prestigious award, they put me shoulder to shoulder with famous international performers who have played here and who had the chance to fill this beautiful hall, which is not small at all. Then I also ceremonially received my own tree in Berlin. I will have my own tree. I joked a little just now when I was giving a statement that one day, when I come back to Berlin, I will probably walk through my own shade under the Ceca tree

She added that she had heard it was her most energetic concert so far. “I’m truly overjoyed, and I heard that it was the most energetic concert so far and that the audience was fantastic,” Ceca told reporters.

Who came from abroad?

According to reports from the scene, fans arrived from Luxembourg, Armenia and Slovakia, along with a group of young women from Belgrade. Nova also reports people from Germany and Switzerland. Ceca spoke about her audience from abroad like this:

Well, it means a lot to me, there was even a situation where a lot of Russians were at the last Usce concert, so for me that’s nothing new. Or it happens that in Germany Germans come, in Austria Austrians, they socialize with our people, and I assume that through that they also know our music and like my songs. So tonight we also had a man from Slovakia, from Armenia, and some young women came from Belgrade

The Russians, in other words, were mentioned in connection with the previous Usce concert, not the Berlin one.

Infusions before going on stage

The singer performed after a virus. Asked by a reporter about her health, she answered:

I’m deathly sick, yes. But I tried not to let it show. It’s already starting to show, my nose is blocked, I’m a bit wheezy. But as far as my audience is concerned, there is no such thing as me being sick. I have medication with me, I carry everything, infusions. Because I truly wouldn’t allow myself to postpone a concert or cancel it. Tonight I tried with my last atoms of strength not to let it show that I’m not fit, and I hope it didn’t show

The dress, she said, was made specially for the Berlin concert: “I couldn’t even feel the dress, it’s so light and it’s all made of some beautiful lace.” Asked which part of her body she likes to train most, she said she likes her legs.

Album, Usce 3 and the question about love

Ceca is working on a new album and preparing the Usce 3 concert, whose date has not been announced. Asked whether she is in love, she answered briefly: “No, I’m not in love.” She added:

In the coming year? Nothing, write it off for this year, there are still three months left. Now that I’m making an album and preparing a concert, to fall in love on top of that and lose my mind, I really don’t need that

A German newspaper’s piece before the concert

Before the concert began, a German newspaper also published a piece, which Kurir reports on. Kurir does not name the paper. The piece describes Ceca as the widow of Zeljko Raznatovic Arkan, whom she married on February 19, 1995. It also recalls her arrest in Operation Sabre in 2003, and 2011, when she pleaded guilty and received a year of house arrest and a fine of 1.5 million euros. The reprinted text also states that Ceca herself was not involved in Arkan’s crimes.

The author of the piece concludes:

The problem is not her songs. The problem is the erasure of context.

Kurir reports that the author does not call for a ban on her music.