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Marija erifovi is a Serbian singer. She won the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 with the song Molitva. erifovi is the daughter of Verica erifovi, also a notable singer. She was also one of the judges on Eurosong to choose the Irish entry for Eurovision Song Contest 2008 and sang Molitva to close the show. She was also a member of the International Jury in Melodifestivalen 2009, the selection for the Swedish entry to Eurovision Song Contest 2009.

erifovi was born in Kragujevac in central Serbia, the daughter of Rajko erifovi, a drummer, and Verica erifovi, a popular singer. Her father was born in Kragujevac, the son of a Muslim father from Vranje and an Orthodox mother, while her mother was born in Kragujevac, into an Orthodox family. Her mother had four miscarriages before having Marija, and her father left her mother for another woman when she was nine months pregnant with Marija and had a son, Marijas halfbrother Danijel, with the other woman in 1985. Marija has described her father as an abusive alcoholic that would regularly beat her mother. Marija also had an older halfbrother, Duan erifovi, from her fathers previous marriage. Duan died in September 2013, aged 42, following a long illness. In 2013, erifovi came out as lesbian.

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