Raša Pavlović

Raša Pavlović, born Radoš Pavlović on 3 June 1944 in Obrva near Kraljevo, is a Serbian singer of folk music.

His career began in 1969 in a restaurant in Budva, where Budimir Buca Jovanović heard him and offered him a record. The first single followed in 1972 on PGP RTB, with the songs "Voleo sam je" and "Ljubav je kratka bila". His best-known songs are "Lepa vodeničarka" and "Livada je moja uspomena".

For half a century he has been a regular at Serbian folk festivals: Hit parada in 1976 with "Ne varaj sebe, ne varaj mene", Šumadijski sabor in 1997 with "Zbogom ostaj izgubljena ljubavi", Moravski biseri many times from 1996 on, the Dragiša Nedović festival in Kragujevac with "Stani, stani, Ibar vodo" (2000), and Vojvođanske zlatne žice in Novi Sad. At the Lira festival in Belgrade in 2011 he won the second prize for interpretation with "Sad je neko drugo vreme".

In 2015 Moravski biseri gave Raša Pavlović a lifetime achievement award for his exceptional contribution to preserving and popularising folk music. At the Sabor narodne muzike Srbije in 2022 his "Pogledaj me jednom, vilo" won the awards for best arrangement and for interpretation, and in 2026 he received the Gold Medal for Merit. His own channel gathers his songs, old and new.