Serbian pop music
On May 12, 2007 Marija Šerifović won The Eurovision Song Contest with a song called Molitva (Prayer in English, the title of the English version is Destiny).
This is only the second time a contestant from the former Yugoslavia won the Contest (the first was a Yugoslav band called Riva winning in 1989). Interestingly Molitva won despite it is sung in Serbian and not in English which has become a lingua franca of the music industry.
Molitva is a really great song and it rightly won but to some it may come as a surprise that such a small country was victorious this year.
Molitva - Marija Šerifović
Audiences all over the world are largely unaware of the great potential of pop music from the Balkan countries of south-eastern Europe. This is real music that is the fruit of true creativity that comes from the heart. It’s not soulless product of money hungry show biz profiteers sung by manufactured pop idols that we hear all around every day. It’s real, it’s powerful, it’s heart-wrenching…
The Balkans is full of great artists and one of my recent favourites is a band called Neverne Bebe (Unfaithful Sweethearts) . Check out their tremendous tunes on youtube.com
Tuzna pesma - Neverne Bebe
