Roki Vulović

Rodoljub Vulović (Родољуб Вуловић; born on 1 May 1955), more commonly known by his stage name Roki Vulović (Роки Вуловић) is a Bosnian Serb folk singer and songwriter.

He is often described as a turbo-folk singer and is known for his Serbian nationalist songs.

Vulović was born between the night of 30 April and 1 May 1955 in Bijeljina, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina into a Serbian-Montenegrin-German family.

His grandfather was from Montenegro, and his father was a prisoner of war in Germany during World War II.

Vulović started his music career in 1975 with his first studio album Kristina (Christina).

In 1988 he released his second studio album Paša and he started a concert tour in Western European countries with a significant number of the Serbian diaspora.

During the Yugoslav Wars, his hometown Bijeljina was destroyed, which subsequently made Vulović join the 1st Brigade of Semberska.

However, his entry visas to the United States were denied several times due to the anti-NATO songs made by him during the 1990's.

He is most famous for his 1992 album Semberski junaci and the single "Panteri – Mauzer" which is about the Garda Panteri, an elite unit of the Army of Republika Srpska.

He released another studio album Semberski junaci (Heroes of Semberija) in 1992, dedicated to the injured during the Bosnian War.

The album made him popular among Serbs and in the Balkan region with the song "Panteri – Mauzer" (Panthers of Mauzer) praising the Garda Panteri, which was an elite unit of the Army of Republika Srpska.

After the album's success, Vulović enlisted into Garda Panteri himself.

He recorded more studio albums which were nationalist and against NATO, including Panteri (Panthers; 1993) and Crni Bombarder (The Black Bomber; 1995).

In the song Crni Bombarder, Vulović sings about Operation Deliberate Force, which was an operation during the Bosnian War that took place on 30 August 1995.

Vulović released his last studio album Zbog tebe (Because of you) in 1997 and stopped performing after the release of the song.

After he stopped performing, he became a professor at Mihajlo Pupin Technical School and worked as a chairman of Serbian Polytechnic and Pharmacy School until 2013.

Vulović is controversial in the west due to his Serbian nationalism and anti-NATO views during war.

However, his songs do not mention any specific nations or countries and avoid bias and racism in lyrics, which isn't common among other Serb nationalist singers.

Once his songs became available on the internet, especially on YouTube, he and his songs became popular internationally.

He is married to Serbian musician Jelica Vulović and has two children, Vladimir and Milijana.

He can speak French and Italian fluently, and also speaks German.

His hobby is traveling to foreign countries, especially to Western European countries where many Serbs live.