Usnija Redžepova met her husband, Svetomir Šešić aka Sele, in 1978 during a tour in Germany.
Usnija Redžepova is not related to Esma Redžepova, another prominent Macedonian-Romani singer, but the two were close friends and released an album together in 1994, Songs of a Macedonian Gypsy, which gathers their main successes [REF].