Bilja Vesovic Needs 150,000 Euros for Turkey Treatment
Serbian singer Bilja Vesovic is being treated in Turkey, and her colleagues held a benefit night at the Vajera restaurant in Sabac to raise money for her 150,000 euro treatment.
Singer Bilja Vesovic from Sabac is fighting for her life, and on Thursday evening, September 24, her colleagues from the music world held a benefit night at the Vajera restaurant to help her continue her treatment in Turkey.
Vesovic has spent three decades in music and has lent her voice to countless celebrations across Serbia, but she has stopped performing recently because of her health. Telegraf reports that she has an aggressive form of tumor, a sarcoma, while Kurir writes that she is being treated for sinus cancer. The two outlets disagree on the exact diagnosis, but both confirm that Vesovic has already traveled to Turkey and started a course of therapy that runs for months, through several cycles, and costs around 150,000 euros.
Who performed at the benefit concert?
On the stage at Vajera restaurant in Sabac, in a show of support for their colleague, performances came from Zorana Micanovic, Tamara Milutinovic, Borko Radivojevic, Ljuba Alicic, Jovan Perisic, Nenad Manojlovic, Denis Papun, Ceca Dukic, Bosko Nikolic, Aleksandar Joldzic, Dejan Bajunovic, Jelena Kostelnik, Andrea Suljic, Stojce Sandic and the Impact band. Anyone who wants to help can send a donation to account number 205-9002570740-56.
Zorana Micanovic, who took part in the concert, told Kurir how hard the news of Bilja’s condition hit her:
She can’t answer calls or messages, she has a group chat, but I’m kept informed about everything to do with her.
The two singers have known each other for six or seven years, ever since they met at a slava celebration hosted by a mutual friend.
Speaking to the same outlet, Micanovic also addressed what she sees as the responsibility public figures carry when it comes to humanitarian causes: “I think we should all help when something like this comes up, and share the posts about it.”
She told Telegraf that she tries to help whenever she is able to: “I’m someone who always tries, as much as I can, to send money and to give.”
The organizers of the benefit evening are calling on everyone who is able to pitch in and help Vesovic continue her therapy. The goal of every fundraiser held in Sabac so far has been the same: to let the singer keep up her treatment and give her support through what lies ahead. It is not yet known how much of the required 150,000 euros has been raised, nor when her next round of therapy in Turkey is scheduled.
Before she fell ill, Vesovic regularly performed at weddings and celebrations across western Serbia, and news of her condition first spread among friends on social media before it reached the press. Colleagues from Sabac and the surrounding area say they will keep organizing similar events for the singer for as long as it takes.
