She is perhaps best-known to the American pop culture as the soprano voice behind the Diva in the film The Fifth Element. She comes from an artistic family and began her opera career at a very early age.

In The Fifth Element she performed an aria from Donnizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor (the mad scene) and "The Diva Dance" song.

In 1987 she won the "Cantante d'Albania" competition in Tirana and in 1988 the George Enescu Competition in Bucharest. In 1992 she won the "Butterfly" Competition in Barcelona outright. She received an award at the first Placido Domingo contest in Paris, 1993. A CD of the event was released. She later performed in various concerts with the famous tenor at the Opéra Bastille, and with Brussels for "Europalia Mexico", in Munich, and in Oslo.

Her husband, Pirro Çako, is a well-known singer and composer from Albania. Her father, Avni Mula, is a composer.