Rita's grandfather Besim Sahatçiu, who passed away in 2005, was a film, TV and theatre director Dua's grandfather Seit Lipa, who died in 1999, was head of the Kosovan Institute of History and intellectual Rita was born in Pristina, Yugoslavia (present-day Kosovo), to Albanian parents Besnik Ora and Vera Sahatçiu Dua was born in London and is the eldest child of Kosovo Albanian parents Anesa, née Rexha, and Dukagjin from Pristina, FR Yugoslavia