Rade Jorović

Radoje "Rade" Jorović is a Serbian singer of folk music in the Šumadija tradition, born on 25 November 1953 in Goračići near Guča. He sang as a soloist with the band Plavi anđeli in Gornja Trepča, and in mid-1976 he went to work in Germany as a singer.

His recording career started in 1980 with the single "Lepotica i sirotan". The breakthrough came with "Selo moje lepše od Pariza" in 1982, the title song of his first album, which he also sang at the Hit parada festival in 1983. Al' je lepo biti seljak followed in 1983, and he sang its title song at MESAM in 1984.

Through the 1980s he released Pesme za nju (1985), Tiha voda ruši stene (1986), Sedamdeset sedam sela (1988) and Tebi pesma, meni suze (1989), and returned to Hit parada with "Nisam ćata" (1986), "Tiha voda ruši stene" (1987) and "Pogledom te tražim" (1989). Krenulo je krenulo (1991), Putuju kočije bele (1993), Svi moji drugovi (1997) and a self-titled album in 2000 followed. His best-known songs also include "Ti si žena mog života", "Ne šalji majko sina u tuđinu", "Žene vole oficire" and "Dođi dušo da štedimo struju".

He sang at the Šumadijski sabor in 1991 and 1997, at the Dragiša Nedović festival in Kragujevac in 2018, and at the Sabor narodne muzike Srbije in Belgrade in 2018 and 2020. In 2018 Rade Jorović received a lifetime achievement award at the Sabor, and in 2020 he was named a national artist of Serbian popular music.