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Dorde Balaševic is a prominent Serbian songwriter and singer.Balaševic was born in Novi Sad in 1953. A high school dropout, he scored his first major success in 1977 with a tango single "U razdeljak te ljubim" sold in 180,000 copies, a big success by Yugoslav standards. The next major success came in 1978 with a song celebrating the communist revolution, "Racunajte na nas", popular with both authorities and people, and widely promoted as a generation hymn. After that, all the doors were opened and Balaševic has been a major figure in Yugoslav pop-music scene ever since.
Balaševic remained very popular across all former Yugoslav countries. He has a particularly large following in Croatia, where his grandparents are living in Koprivnica-Križevci county. Also, it is worth noting that Balaševic with his family recently moved to Slovenia.
Many of his songs in the late 1980s dealt with controversial issues surrounding the breakup of the socialist Yugoslavia, criticizing any negative changes produced by the change of political and economic system. Although he didn't openly criticize Serbian nationalism in the early 1990s, he did refuse to join the Serbian army and was in de facto house arrest for a while during the Milosevic years.
His political views have shifted in the last few decades, and he has been accused of condescending to his audience. A couple of his songs are controversial and have incited anger among certain groups of people, most notably refugees who had flooded his native VojvodinaThe Autonomous Province of Vojvodina ( Serbian: Hungarian: Vajdasag Autonom Tartomany Slovak: Autonomna pokrajina Vojvodina Romanian: Provincia Autonoma Voivodina Croatian: Autonomna Pokrajina Vojvodina Rusyn: is the northern province of Serbia. Its capit region in the 1990s. He is also disliked for the jokes that he makes during his concerts, which are later retold, often distorted, and rarely forgiven.
His style has been constant and very distinctive, marked with nostalgiaNostalgia currently describes a longing for the past: Often an idealized and unrealistic past The term was originally coined in 1678 by Johannes Hoffer ( 1669- 1752) from Latin roots, to refer to "the pain a sick person feels because he is not in his nati and rich narrative saturated with gentle moods. He was influenced by the poet Mika AnticMiroslav Mika Antic is a Serbian poet. He was born in Mokrin, Vojvodina on 14th of March 1932. He died on 24th of June, 1986. He wrote poems, articles, dramas, movie and TV scripts, documentaries. Mika also acted in several movies, and was an amateur pain and songwriter Arsen Dedic , the latter "debt" openly acknowledged by Balaševic himself (I am an Arsen-addict) .
