Jovan Perišić

Jovan Perišić is a Bosnian-born Serbian folk singer, born on 3 October 1972 in Gornji Vrbljani in the municipality of Ribnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He lives in Temerin near Novi Sad and often returns to his home region in Bosnia. He names Šaban Šaulić as his role model.

He moved to Belgrade in 1991 and to Novi Sad in 1992, where his career began; for about five years he sang in restaurants, discos and clubs. A songwriter friend heard him sing at a wedding in Dvorovi near Bijeljina and recommended him to Siniša Kajmaković, producer and owner of the label Renome, and Perišić recorded his first album, Zbogom lažne ljubavi, in 1997, with arrangements by Dragan Stojković. Its songs included "Samo jednom srce voli" and "Fatalna žena".

His second album, Čovek kafanski (1999), with "Treća smena", "Crno oko" and the title song, was named the most successful folk album of the year in Republika Srpska, and he won the Zlatni Melos award as the best folk singer of the year there. Sve ću da razbijem (2001), Premija (2004) and Dolazim (2007) followed; Dolazim brought his biggest hit, "Moje najmilije".

Poleti ljubavi came out on BN Music in 2009, with "Sunce se rađa" and "Begunac od ljubavi", and in 2011 he returned on Grand Production with Znaš me, znam te. In 2011 he also sang "Prijatelju moj" with the group Bota i Dijamanti. His album Kako je, tako je (Grand, July 2013) brought "Laku noć princezo", "Svakom svoje milo moje" and "Da mi je da znam", and a solo concert in Banja Luka the same year was a big step in his career.

Jovan Perišić has kept recording since, with "Zakon ljubavi" (2015), "Ja sam se zakleo" (2021), "Blagoslov" (2021) and "Jovana" (2025). He is married and has two sons and a daughter.