Bleona Nazmi Qereti (born May 14, 1979) is an Albanian-born American actress, singer-songwriter and producer. She became one of the Albanian names that shone in music and the Hollywood scene.

Qereti is an American citizen, and, as of 2010, lives in California, where she has worked with producers such as Timbaland, Rodney Jerkins, and Grammy Award winner David Foster. She has released eight studio albums in Albanian, and has released several singles in English, such as "Show Off", "Famous", "Take You Over", "Without You" and "Pass Out," the latter co-produced by Timbaland. On September 10, 2013, she released the single "Take It Like a Man", which went to No. 7 in the UK charts. She was also a celebrity judge on the fourth season of the Albanian version of The X Factor and the breakout star of the 2014 Bravo reality series Euros of Hollywood.

In February 2019, she landed her first number one single on Billboard's Dance Club Songs chart with "I Don't Need Your Love."

Qereti was born on May 14, 1979 in Korçë, the daughter of Albanian parents Oli and Nazmi Qereti.

Bleona began singing at age 5 when she joined the House of Pionieri. At 13, her parents encouraged her to focus on academics and give up on singing, but against their advice, she continued to pursue a career in entertainment. When she was 14 years old, Bleona earned an audition and landed her first major role as the lead singer for the Skampa Theater in Elbasan.

Following a performance at the Albanian National Music Festival at age 15, Bleona became a household name in her native country. She released her first single "Lermëni (Let Me Be Free)" in 1996, and the following year issued her debut album Kam Qejfin Tim (I Run My Own Game). Bleona's first major tour took place that year, and she performed 25 summer shows at concert halls in Switzerland and Germany. Bleona has said she learned Italian through music and often performs in Italian, and she also records in English and Albanian. She studied the Stanislavski System of acting, graduating with a BA from the Academy of Performing Arts in Tirana. She also plays violin.

From 1998 through 2002, Bleona released four albums, all of which reached the charts in southeastern Europe. In 1999 she headlined the Humanitarian Tour for the People of Kosovo, where she played a number of concerts around Europe. From 2000 to 2001, she performed more than 80 concerts across Europe, and by 2002 was headlining outdoor concerts and festivals. In 2002, a concert program titled Nje xhiro neper Shqiperi (Walking Through Albania) was issued; footage is available online. In 2003, Bleona released Ti Nuk Di As Me Ma Lyp. A 2004 piece in the Albanian daily Panorama relayed her own claim that the album had sold 400,000 copies by that time. Over the next four years, she again toured throughout Kosovo, England, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, and co-headlined with the rock group, Elita 5.

Reports have linked an early U.S. appearance to New York’s Webster Hall in 2004.[citation needed] Since 2013, she has performed at U.S. events including White Party Palm Springs and Las Vegas Pride, and she staged concerts in the Balkans in 2012.