Birth Date: | 21 June 1960 |
Birth Place: | Wiesbaden, Germany |
Birth Name: | Monique De Haviland |
Origin: | Connecticut, United States |
Occupation: | pop singer, entrepreneur |
Moni Kovačič (born Monique De Haviland) is a US-based Slovenian former pop singer,[1] [2] especially well known in SFR Yugoslavia during the late 1970s and early 1980s[3] due to her hit single "Brez ljubezni mi živeti ni" (No use living without love), released in 1978 by the label ZKP RTVLj. Album releases were Zagonetka (Puzzle) and Može i jače (Can do it stronger).
Born in 1960 to an American father Bill De Haviland and a Slovenian mother Brigita Kovačič, Monique grew up in Connecticut and took up performing from an early age.[3] [4]