Bora Đorđević

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Borisav "Bora" Đorđević (Serbian: Борисав "Бора" Ђорђевић) (born November 1, 1952, in Čačak, Serbia, Yugoslavia), also known as Bora Čorba, is the lead singer for the Serbian rock band Riblja Čorba (meaning fish stew, but with other possible meanings, menstruation being just one of them) since its forming in 1978. He was previously a member of numerous Čačak and Belgrade pop and rock bands in the 1970s, such as "Zajedno", "Suncokreti" and "Rani mraz" (with Đorđe Balašević). He formed "Riblja Čorba" September 15, 1978 and the band became very popular in a few months. The band's popularity grew, but it has also started manifesting in Đorđević's alcoholism, which has, together with his provocative social-related lyrics, caused him to become one of the most controversial musicians in Yugoslavia. He was trialed for "insulting the working people of Yugoslavia" in 1987, but the charges were dropped. After the beginning of the Yugoslavia civil war, Đorđević became an active supporter of the Serbian troops in Republika Srpska and Republika Srpska Krajina, but he was also strongly opposed to Serbian regime and the president Slobodan Milošević and he demonstrated his attitude by publishing the only album he produced under his name only, without the "Riblja Čorba" etiquette, "Their Days" ("Njihovi dani", published in Banja Luka, 1996). After the political changes in Serbia, he became the Deputy Minister of Culture in Serbian Government in 2004, but he was forced to resign from the position the next year, after accusing the journalists of the television B92 of spying and anti-Serbian politics.