Boro Drljača

Borislav "Boro" Drljača (; 29 August 1941 – 11 October 2020) was a Serbian folk singer from Bosanska Krajina. Recognized as one of the most eminent Yugoslav folk singers, he received the Life Achievement Award for his work. Drljača recorded over four hundred songs including "Stari vuk" (Old Wolf), "Ne namiguj na me tuđa ženo" (Don't Wink at Me, Someone Else's Wife), and "Plači, mala, plači" (Cry, Baby, Cry). Furthermore, he was a subject of numerous popular internet memes on social media.

Early life Borislav Drljača was born on 29 August 1941 in the village of Donja Suvaja, former Kingdom of Yugoslavia into a Serb family during World War II. Drljača's father Branko was an economist, store manager and a guitarist while his mother Stoja was also an economist. When he was two years old, his mother died after being killed by the Ustashas and his father later remarried after the war, leaving him with no photographs of his mother. Drljača finished primary school in Donja Suvaja, after which he went to his uncle in Bačka Topola. He also finished agricultural high school there, Drljača eventually relocated to Belgrade to study agronomy at the University of Belgrade. Drljača met his second wife, Radomirka Sladić, at his concert. The couple did not have children and Sladić died from cancer in 2018.

On 11 October 2020 Drljača died from colon cancer in his New Belgrade apartment.

Discography Singles and EPs

1967 - Ne znam mlađan gdje ću pre 1969 – Za ljubav tvoju (For Your Love) 1970 - Ti si sve što želim (You Are All I Want) 1973 – Sarajevo divno mjesto (Sarajevo Lovely Place) 1974 - Krajišnici gdje ćemo ne prelo 1975 - Kad zapjeva grupa Krajišnika (When a Group of Frontiersmen Sings) 1975 - Nas dvoje smo srećni (We Are Both Happy) 1977 - Tjeraj mala stado iza brijega 1980 - Prijo moja, kako ćemo 1981 - Pismo ratnom drugu (A Letter to a Wartime Friend)

Albums

1975 – Ti si sve što želim (You Are All I Want) 1976 – Krajišnici gdje ćemo na prelo (Frontiersmen Where Do We Go for Some Fun) 1978 – Pjevaj mi, pjevaj sokole (Sing to Me, Falcon) 1980 – Bora i Gordana Runjajić (Bora and Gordana Runjajić) 1981 – Bora Drljača (Bora Drljača) 1982 – Jugosloven (The Yugoslav) 1984 – Nas dvoje veže ljubav (A Love Binds Two of Us) 1985 – Čovjek sam iz naroda (I Am a Man of the People) 1986 – Pjevaj srce (Sing, My Heart) 1988 – Alal vera majstore (Congratulations, Maestro) 1990 – Ko te uze zlato moje (Who Took You, My Precious) 1991 – Krajino, Krajino (Oh Frontier, Oh Frontier) 1991 – Ja sam čovek za tebe (I Am the Man for You) 1993 – Ne dam Krajine (I Will Not Give Up the Frontier) 1995 – Nema raja bez rodnoga kraja (There is No Paradise Without Homeland) 1996 – Krajišnik sam ja (I'm a Frontiersman) 1998 – Sine sine (Son, My Son) 1999 – Rača II (Rača II) 2002 – Car ostaje car (A Tsar Remains a Tsar) 2004 – Bora Drljača uživo (Bora Drljača Live) 2004 – Stari vuk (Old Wolf) 2007 – Brbljivica (Gossip Girl)