Career
The Pjevović family descend from Rajović family from Montenegro. The Rajović family is named against their earliest known ancestor, Rajo. In the 18th century a branch of Rajović family moved from Montenegro to Prilike in Ottoman Serbia.
At that time one of family members, Rajo Rajović was known as a good singer (Serbian: pjevač), so Ottomans referred to him as Pjevo.
Ottoman subashi from Zlatibor often requested Pjevo to be brought to sing to his field workers, to encourage them to work better. Based on this nickname Pjevo"s descendants adopted Pjevović last name.
Pjevović completed only four grades of elementary school. In 1941 he moved from Donja Gorevnica to Mrčajevci where he lived until his death in 1991.
One of the most popular songs Pjevović composed was a famous folk song (authored by Dobrica Erić) "" (Serbian: Волео сам девојку из града) that was the first hit song of Miroslav Ilić, a fellow country man of Pjevović.
