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Serbian pop is the pop music scene of Serbia. During the 1940s, 1950s 1960s, 1970s and the 1980s, while Serbia was a constituent republic of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Serbian pop scene was a part of the SFR Yugoslav pop scene.
Beginning of pop music in Serbia
Pop music in Serbia existed before Second World War. It is known that in late 20s guest of Serbian capital Belgrade was a famous singer and actress Josephine Baker which suggests that in Serbia there were many gramophone records of this style of music and similar music styles such as jazz. It also confirmes the statement of the actress Ognjenka Het in the radio show of Radio Belgrade called Two white goals in 1986 and is also confirmed by other direct and indirect sources. While the first singer-songwriters appear in other parts of Yugoslavia in that time in Serbia were performed romaces, starogradska muzika, and folk music by the singers Edo Ljubić, Fulgencije Vucemilović, Milan Timotić, Olga Jančevecka and others.[1] Mijat Mijatović, Sofka Nikolić, Bora Janjić - Šapčanin mostly performed folk songs, sevdalinka, starogradska muzika, but sometimes they also performed pop music. Bora Janjić - Šapčanin recorded the cover of Hungarian schlager Sad Sunday.
1940s
Serbian pop music in this period was very influenced by schlager music, chansons and canzonas. Vojin Popović is remembered as one of the pioneers of pop music in Serbia and Yugoslavia. He appears during the war with the song Ne brini majčice mila, but original performance of this song was not preserved. One of the first composers of pop music was Darko Kraljić. His famous compositions include Zašto si pospan Čo, Čamac na Tisi, Hej momci mladi. Čamac na Tisi and Hej momci mladi belong to Serbian postwar music, while it's not certain when the song Zašto si pospan Čo was created. It is considered that the song was created before or during the Second World War.
Pop music has been on the sidelines with the arrival of communist authorities. Music was mostly performed on balls or could be heard on radios. Very few people had gramophone or possibility to get it.[2]
1950s
In the early 50s decreased Soviet influence in Yugoslavia and it lead to the first postwar musical wave in Yugoslavia - Mexican songs. Mexican movies became very popular as well as song Mama Huanita from the movie Un día de vida.
The most famous musician of early 50s was drummer Spasa Milutinović. He mostly performed jazz music but also and pop music with his small musical group whose singers were Vojin Popović and Lola Novaković. There are few surviving records, mostly by Jugodisk and Yugoton.
In the late 50s appear new musicians such as Lola Novaković, Dušan Jakšić, Nada Knežević and very popular Đorđe Marjanović.
Lola Novaković was one of the most popular Yugoslav female singers of her time. She is remembered by the great number of wins on different festivals in Yugoslavia and Europe. In 1960 she became first Yugoslav musician to perform in Soviet Union. She also performed on the Near East and Japan. Dušan Jakšić is notable by his numerous hits of which the most popular being Sve moje jeseni su tužne. Nada Knežević is the popular jazz and pop singer, she performed as the UN guest on Sinai Peninsula, and in jazz clubs in Germany and Scandinavia. Đorđe Marjanović gained fame and numerous fans by appearing on television with the song Zvižduk u osam. Besides his long career in Yugoslvia, he made significant career performing in Soviet Union.
In the same time was active Vokalni kvartet Predraga Ivanovića which the most famous song Pod sjajem zvezda appeares in the Yugoslav movie Ljubav i moda. Cune Gojković, singer with diverse repertoire performed Mexican songs. Another significant figure of Serbian pop in this period was Mihailo Živanović, composer, clarinetist, conductor and arranger.[3]
1960s
The Sixties were a fruitful year for pop in Yugoslavia. Numerous festivals were set up such as Belgrade Spring. They were being closely monitored and the great attention was paid on quality. Music has become available to anyone with the advent of television and mass phenomenon vinyl records. Singers maintained tours and solo concerts.
A new group of singers appeard such as Dragan Stojnić, Sedmorica mladih, Miki Jevremović, Ljiljana Petrović, Radmila Karaklajić, Tihomir Petrović, Krsta Petrović, Zafir Hadžimanov, Leo Martin and others.
In Belgrade were held popular igranke on Kalemegdan, Lazarevićeva, Mašinac and in the Belgrade Youth Center.[4]
1970s, 1980s and 1990s
In 70s and 80s pop music began to lose its popularity due to the growing interest in rock music.
The biggest star of Yugoslav and Serbian pop of 70s and onwards is Bosnian Serb singer Zdravko Čolić. Zdravko Čolić performed disco and pop music followed by his dance group Lokice. As of 2014 he recorded 14 albums with significant number of hits.
Boba Stefanović and Vladimir Savčić Čobi with his group Pro Arte are another notable musicians of 70s.[5]
Obraz uz obraz was a popular tv show of RTV Beograd hosted by actors Milena Dravić and Dragan Nikolić where performed most of the popular musicians of the time between 1972 and 1974.
In the 80s on the pop scene appeared group Zana which song Dodirni mi kolena is sung up to date. Bebi Dol became famous with her songs Mustafa and Rudi and debut album Ruže i krv which was voted debut album of the year. Girls group Aska performed at the Eutovidion with song Halo, halo, Maja Odžaklievska recorded song Budi dobar, kao što sam ja. [6]
In the turbulent year of 90s pop music has fallen into the shadows of Eurodance. Tap 011 was one of the most popular groups of 90s with their hits Zbog tebe, Bunda, Okreni broj 95, Plava... Kovač sisters duo, K2 worked with many producers worldwide and released five albums. New gorup of popular sigers include Bojan Milanović, Tanja Banjanin, Leontina Vukomanić...
2000s
In the 2000s pop music incerease it's popularity with musicians like Željko Joksimović, Vlado Georgiev, Željko Samardžić, Saša Kovačević, Aleksandra Kovač, Ana Stanić, Aleksandra Radović, Marija Šerifović, Jelena Tomašević, and others.
Eurovision
Serbian singers performed in Eurovision Song Contest as part of Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro before Serbia's debut in 2007.
Lola Novaković achieved the first Yugoslav significant results at Eurovision winning 4th place in 1962 with the song Ne pali svetlo u sumrak.
Željko Joksimović took the second place at the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Lane moje representing Serbia and Monteengro. In 2012, as Serbian representative, he came third with the song Nije ljubav stvar.
Marija Šerifović won the first place at the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest at Serbia's debut in the competition, and Serbia was the host of the 2008 contest in Belgrade Arena.
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