[4] She is considered one of the most popular figures in Croatia and Croatia's pop-culture, and one of the most popular musicians on Balkan region, having collaborated with numerous artists like: Jala Brat, Ministarke, Azis, Marina Tucaković, Saša Matić, Miligram, Petar Grašo, Kemal Monteno, Željko Bebek, Crvena Jabuka, Goran Bregović, Boris Novković, Lana Jurčević, Danijela Martinović and many others.

[5] Severina was born in Split, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia on 21 April 1972, the youngest daughter of Ana (who was from Drniš) and Sever Vučković.

Lepa Smoje once said: "The moment I saw her on the stage of the Frano Štrapalo musical, I said: this little girl is a born star"[8] Later, she started singing in the Treća smena group and won first prizes at competitions, one of which was from the Student summer, where she was declared the best singer.

The album contained songs like "Vodi me na ples" ("Take me to dance") and "Kad si sam" ("When you’re alone"), "Idemo se ljubiti" ("Let's kiss"), which quickly won the hearts of the audience and became hits.

[14] That same year she won the first prize at the Zagreb Festival with the song "Sklopi oči muzika dok svira" (Close Your Eyes While the Music Is Playing).

Both "Paloma nera" and the title track became number one hits on the national top list, and a very successful tour of Croatia and Slovenia followed.

It contains ten tracks: "Trava zelena" (Green grass), "Vatra i led" (Fire and ice), "Mr. Taliman", "Bože moj" (My God), "Bambola", "Lude godine" (Crazy Years), "Poželi me" (Wish for me), "Pruži mi ruku" (Give me your hand), "Ludo moja" (Crazy mine), "Ti si srce moje" (You are my heart) a duet with Žera from Crvena Jabuka.

Other collaborators on the album were Faruk Buljubasic, Nenad Ninčević, Rajko Dujmić, and for the first time Severina herself is credited as a writer on three songs.

The title track is one of her biggest hits and was used by the Croatia national football team as their unofficial anthem during their campaign at the 1998 FIFA World Cup.

[9] In early 1999, Severina went on a second tour of Australia, and in July of the same year she performed at the Melodies of Croatian Jadran (MHJ) festival with Đorđe Novković's song 'Da si moj'.

Four singles from the album "Da si moj" (If you were mine), "Ante", "Ja samo pjevam" and "Dodirni mi koljena" were released.

[25] The album was not supported by an indoor tour, but on 6 July 2000, she held a solo concert at the Stadion Stari plac in Split in front of more than 20,000 people.

Virujen u Te was her first major tour during which she performed in most of the big cities on the Balkans including Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Ljubljana, Slovenia and confirmed her status as one of the most popular Croatian music artists.

[32] After the contest, she started working on her tenth studio album together with Goran Bregović, one of the most successful music composers in the Balkans, and soon Severina's long-anticipated tenth studio album Zdravo Marijo (Hail Mary) was released in May 2008 by Dallas Records[15] The album had songs: "Gas, gas", "Pucajte u tamburaše", "Muškarcu treba samo kurva" (A man only needs a whore), "Gade" (Bastard), "Da nisi možda gej" (If you're not maybe gay), "Ljute cigare" (Spicy cigars), "Tridesete" (Thirties), "What does she have that I don't", "Hail, Mary".

In 2011, at the final of the reality show "Big Brother", she announced her new album by singing the single "Brad Pitt", which received a phenomenal response from the audience.

Soon after, she released the song "Brazil" to support the Croatia national football team's campaign at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in the country.

In 2014, Severina made headlines again, posing completely naked with only a crown on her head on the cover of the February issue of Elle magazine, has also attracted attention beyond the border.

The famous designer duo Dolce&Gabbana posted the cover on their official Twitter account with the caption "stunning Croatian pop-folk singer Severina Vučković in Elle Croatia".

[39] It turned out to be highly popular across the Balkans, becoming a summer hit in Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, accumulating more than 130 million views on YouTube.

[43] On 4 July 2023, she released an EP titled "Sorry" with 5 new songs: Sorry, Metak (Bullet) collaboration with Serbian Rapper Nucci, Nebo (Sky) with Sandi Cenov & KIMMV, Pravda za ljubav (Justice for Love) and 100 Stepeni (100 Degrees) with L'Amiral.

[44] On 31 March 2022, she published her music video with Bulgarian superstar Azis titled "Fališ mi" (Missing you) on her YouTube Channel.

[45] In June 2023, Severina was announced as one of the four judges on RTL's singing reality television series Superstar, along with Nika Turković, Tonči Huljić and Filip Miletić.

I started writing it at the beginning of the year, in order to "shake off" the sadness and anger that came over me after that decision of the Supreme Court, in which they said that my child should be taken away because of a "procedural error" - the singer continued, then concluded: "Then she seemed sad to me, and I didn't care for anything, so I put her aside To Serbia, which fights for justice and does not want to sell honor, and which was supported by fellow students in Croatia - wrote the singer.

Two years later she produced and acted in the monodrama Čekajući svog čovika (Waiting for My Man) at the Satirical Theatre Kerempuh in Zagreb.

In 2007, she was cast for one of the main roles in HNK Rijeka's musical Gospoda Glembajevi (The Glembays; based upon Miroslav Krleža's 1929 play).

Although the decision to cast Severina was met with criticism by some commentators who questioned her acting credentials, the musical premiered in March 2007 with considerable success.

[55] In 1999, Severina entered into a brief relationship with the Croatian model Adnan Taletović, whom she met while filming her "Da si moj" (If You Were Mine) music video.

[56] In 2000, while still in a relationship with Bosnian-Herzegovinian Croat general Stanko Sopta, she began an affair with Milan Lučić, a married businessman with whom she recorded a sex tape, which was leaked to the public in 2004.

The wedding was attended by a large number of people from the entertainment industry such as Lepa Brena, Rada Manojlović, Željko Joksimović, Nada Topčagić, Goran Karan, Džej Ramadanovski, Aca Lukas and others.

[67] On 25 August 2024, when scheduled to perform at a birthday party in Belgrade, Vučković was denied entry into Serbia on the Bajakovo border crossing.