- At the age of 17, Ceca was cast in the role of Kostana, a beautiful gypsy singer and dancer, in Stojan Stojcic's directorial effort of Necista krv (Impure Blood), a movie based on the works of Serbian playwright and novelist Borisav Stankovic. Even though she had acted alongside actors such as Rade Serbedzija, Ljuba Tadic, she felt that her role was unimportant and therefore asked for her scenes to be removed because of "low quality." The troubled production took years to complete and received poor critical reception upon its release in 1996.
- She continued to work with Marina Tucakovic, Edin Dervishalidovic and later with their young protege Aleksandar Milic Mili, with whom she continues to work today. Her next three albums, Sta je to u tvojim venama (What Is In Your Veins?, 1993), Ja jos spavam u tvojoj majici (I Still Sleep In Your Shirt, 1994) and Fatalna ljubav (Fatal Love, 1995), broadened her popularity and included hit songs such as "Nije monotonija" (It Is Not Monotony) and two covers of hit Hanka Paldum songs: "Trazio si sve" (You Wanted Everything) and "Volela sam volela" (I Loved, I Loved.) With a more modern production of music, music videos, and an evolving style, her popularity grew, as demonstrated by her 1996 album Emotivna luda (Emotionally Crazy) and 1997's Maskarada (Masquerade). The song "Nevaljala" (Naughty) from Maskarada became the number one hit in Serbia for seventeen consecutive weeks. Her recording schedule became erratic because of the birth of her two children, Veljko in 1996 and Anastasija in 1998, and having to deal with family tragedy.
- On the night of 17 March 2004, Ceca and Kristijan Golubovic (close associate of Arkan, her husband) gathered demonstrators in front of the government building in Belgrade to speak about the situation in Kosovo and the burning of more than 300 Serbian Orthodox churches in Kosovo.
- In June 2013, she held a concert in Belgrade in front of thousands of fans for her 40th birthday.
- Her first two albums, Cvetak zanovetak (1988) and Ludo srce (Crazy Heart, 1989) were made in the traditional Serbian folk music style with some songs, such as "Volim te" (I Love You), having a more modern production. Pustite me da ga vidim (Allow Me to See Him), she quickly became a very popular teenage star and idol for many people in Serbia. Her third album, was a major hit in the former Yugoslavia. Ceca became the best-selling artist of the Belgrade TV's record label PGP-RTB and third best-selling female folk artist in Yugoslavia, behind Lepa Brena and Dragana Mirkovic. She continued in the same direction with her next album, Babaroga (1991) which included a music video for the song "Hej vrsnjaci" (Hey Peers) composed of footage from her eighteenth birthday gala event.
- Ceca is the president of the "Third Child" humanitarian fund. Her organizations prime goal is to increase the birthrate in Serbia and to help families who already have three or more children. She has held several humanitarian concerts raising money for food, clothing, and sundries to benefit the Serbs in Kosovo, after the 2004 unrest in Kosovo in March 2004.
- The Velickovic family has St. Nicholas as their patron saint.
- Ceca had her first public appearance at the age of nine, in her hometown, and at the age of thirteen she sang in a hotel on the Montenegrin coast, while vacationing with her parents. Here, the acclaimed singer and accordion player Mirko Kodic noticed her, and helped her in recording her first studio album Cvetak zanovetak (The Little Nagging Flower, 1988). At the age of fifteen, she performed at the Ilidza Music Festival in Sarajevo, at which her song "Cvetak zanovetak" won the competition, and became a hit. Ceca was mentored by Dobrivoje "Doca" Ivankovic, a composer and producer of folk music, who launched many careers in the 1970s and 1980s (most notably that of Saban Saulic.).
- Ceca was sent to house arrest in May 2011 and was released on 22 February 2012. She was sentenced to one year house arrest and a fine of 1.5 million Euros. According to the verdict and other court records, she already paid one million of the fine and the third part of it is guaranteed by putting mortgage on her luxury villa in Belgrade. Even though this case is finished, Ceca has other court cases (for violent criminal behavior, repaying credit from Komercijalna bank and returning debt to Vojislav Djurkovic, former member of paramilitary unite which was under control by Ceca's late husband Arkan.).
- She released her tenth studio album, Ceca 2000 (1999), which featured multiple hit songs: "Crveno" and two covers "Crni sneg" and "Svice dan". Her eleventh album Decenija (Decade, 2001) had two hit songs, "Tacno je" (It's Correct) and the title track. Ceca's twelfth album was Gore od ljubavi (Worse Than Love), released in 2004, and her thirteenth studio album Idealno losa (Ideally Bad, 2006) contained the hit songs "Manta, manta" (Dizzy, Dizzy) and "Koza pamti" (Skin Remembers.) She released her fourteenth studio album Ljubav zivi (Love Lives) in June 2011.
- Her first grandchild, Zeljko Raznatovic, was born on 3 June 2020.
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