Bleona Qereti's dress in American Music Awards (AMA) 2014

Bleona Qereti began her career at the age of five when she was cast in "The House of Pionieri," which was the Albanian equivalent of America's "The Mickey Mouse Club." By the time she was in her early teens, she was already performing sold out multi-city tours and was Albania’s highest profile artist.

Well, that's one way to command attention on the red carpet.
Albanian-born artist Bleona Qereti, best known as Bleona, hit the American Music Awards red carpet Sunday night at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles in a sparkling mesh dress and silver nipple pasties. Bleona's silver underwear peeked through, as she paired the outfit with a red lip and black heels.

Bleona was born in Albania. At age 5, she began singing and performing at Albanian music festivals.She released her first single, "Lermeni (Let Me Be Free)" in 1996, and a year later released her first album, Kam Qejfin Tim (I Run My Own Game).Bleona's first major tour took place that year, and she performed over 25 summer shows at concert halls in Switzerland and Germany. Also in 1997 she toured in support of the Albanian Democratic Party (headed by Sali Berisha), and released a music video for the track "Kam Qejfin Tim." Since then she has released approximately one new music video a year.
At age thirteen, Bleona's father and mother began encouraging her to leave singing and go to finance school. Her parents later sent her to a German school to learn the German language, and she can speak and sing in English, Albanian, Italian, and German. She studied the "Stanisklavski System" of acting, graduating with a BA from the Academy of Performing Arts in Tirana. She also plays violin.
Starting in 1999 until 2002, she released three more albums, all of which peaked at #1 in southeastern Europe. In 1999 she headlined the Humanitarian Tour for the People of Kosovo, where she played for approximately 50 people a show at venues in Sweden, Paris, and Prague, with a concert in Düsseldorf, Germany attracting 10 people. From 2000 to 2001 she performed at 80 concerts in Europe and the United Kingdom, and by 2002 she was headlining outdoor concerts. Also in 2002 she released the DVD, “Nje xhiro neper Shqiperi” (Walking Through Albania) that documented Bleona’s outdoor concerts averaging 20 -30 fans in each city. The tour finale in Albania’s capital, Tirana attracted 100 fans despite a relentless rain that continued throughout the evening.