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.[2] She studied the "Stanisklavski System" of acting, graduating with a BA from the Academy of Performing Arts in Tirana.[3] She also playsviolin.[2]
Starting in 1999 until 2002, she released three more albums,[2] all of which peaked at #1 in southeastern Europe.[3] In 1999 she headlined the Humanitarian Tour for the People of Kosovo, where she played for approximately 5,000 people a show at venues in Sweden, Paris, and Prague, with a concert in Düsseldorf, Germany attracting 10,000 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 -30,000 fans in each city. The tour finale in Albania’s capital, Tirana attracted 100,000 fans despite a relentless rain that continued throughout the evening.[3]
A recent headline performance in Istanbul played to a sold-out crowd of 25,000 where she performed all songs …in English.
Events such as these have expanded Bleona’s reputation as a successful, international performer capable of impressing any audience, also proven by her numerous tour throughout Germany, London, Switzerland, Italy, New York and more, with each crowd averaging 10 – 20,000 Bleona fans.