Trivia

She adopted the mononymous stage name "Silvana" after the Italian actress Silvana Mangano. When she was a young girl, her friends would jokingly call her Silvana after watching the film Bitter Rice (1949), because she resembled the actress.

In a 2013 interview, her former husband Radmilo stated he still visits her grave and always leaves fresh flowers. He also said that Silvana's friend Predrag Zivkovic-Tozovac visited her grave frequently until his death in 2021.

She was the third of thirteen children.

The singer Lepa Lukic has said that she was asked to perform at the concert that day but overslept for the first time in her career and did not make it to the concert; she later stated that she believes, had she gone with them, she would have lost her life in the crash with the sisters. In 2013, Lepa revealed in an interview that she hasn't driven a car since the sisters' deaths, out of fear that she would share their fate.

On Sunday, 10 October 1976, at around 9:15 pm CEST, she died in a car crash near the Serbian village of Kolari in Smederevo along with her 25-year-old pregnant sister Mirsada and violinist/Radio Belgrade folk orchestra conductor Miodrag Jasarevic. They were driving in a Ford Granada car en route from Aleksandrovac to Belgrade after a concert. She was behind the wheel when they left, but sometime between their departure and the crash, 60-year-old Jasarevic had taken the wheel.

Their car was reportedly traveling 130 km/h, when it veered into oncoming traffic lanes at the 60th kilometer of the Belgrade-Nis highway, colliding head-on with a FAP truck driven by 52-year-old Rastko Grujic. Silvana had been sleeping in the passenger's side seat and her younger sister was asleep in the back seat.

Initially, only the death of Jasarevic was reported, as television shows refused to mention Silvana because of the 1972 incident during a live broadcast on New Year's Eve show, which got her banned from television. The exact cause of the accident is unknown, but it is believed that the crash is directly related to a brake problem.

Between 30,000 and 50,000 people attended their funeral, including singers Lepa Lukic and Hasim Kucuk Hoki (who himself died in a near-identical car crash on 26 November 2002). She and her sister were buried side by side in the cemetery Novo groblje.