Singer Dua Lipa, who has family roots in Kosovo, has just adopted Albanian citizenship. Your colleague Rita Ora, who was born in Pristina, is now receiving a different kind of honour: from now on, her likeness will appear on a postage stamp.
Singers Dua Lipa and Rita Ora have a lot in common. Not the age – after all, the two separate almost five years. Not even the place of birth, because while the 27-year-old Dua Lipa was born in London, the 32-year-old Rita Ora was born in Pristina. But the family background and CV of the two show parallels.
Dua Lipa’s parents fled Kosovo when the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia came to a head in the early 1990s. Rita Ora’s father and mother also turned their backs with little Rita and her siblings in view of the political developments in their homeland. Both families eventually ended up in Britain.
What also unites Dua Lipa and Rita Ora is that they continue to uphold the roots of their origins. Dua Lipa even went so far as to accept Albanian citizenship. Albania and neighboring Kosovo, which is also mainly home to Albanians, are socially and culturally closely intertwined. Unlike its neighbor, however, Kosovo’s status under international law is disputed. Not all states recognize that he proclaimed himself a republic in 2008.
Nevertheless, the region is preparing to go its own way – for example in the postal system. And so the local post office has now bestowed a very special honor on one of the currently most famous children in Kosovo: a stamp of their own, as Rita Ora proudly announces on her Instagram page.
“I’m so grateful today,” the singer writes about a picture of the brand that shows her smiling likeness. The publication of the postage stamp was a surprise for her 35th birthday on Saturday. Her grandfather Besim Sahatciu was also honored for his services to art and film, Ora reveals and also shows this brand in another picture.
Ora explains that she was unable to attend the publication of the trademarks in person because of professional commitments. But she wants to catch up on this in good time and express her appreciation for this very special form of recognition.
