Krin Women Vocal Duo – Sladjana and Aleksandra Borota

“Lilly” Female Vocal duet is run by sisters Slađana and Aleksandra Borota from Belgrade, who are committed to researching the ancient traditions of their nation, from which they distinguish songs of lyric character from the area of Kosovo and Methija and the South Serbia, as well as traditions of other Slavic peoples and the Balkan Heritage.

Songs performed by the Lilly Female vocal duet resemble the old times by its spiritual and creative beauties, and by their wonderful tones they are almost similar with the old church singing, of the ancient Byzantine chanting. The Borota sisters say – The Heritage is written in the past, and named for become our gifts”.

Slađana Borota was born in Sisak in 1971 and since 1991 lives in Belgrade. She is specially fond of the spiritual songs of the Holy Bishop Nikolaj, created between the two world wars and recorded in the memory of nuns. Sladana visits monasteries of Serbia and collects songs, in order to rescue  them from oblivion. She works as the theology teacher and music pedagogue, and establishes a number of choirs which cherish the spiritual music. Sladana Borota has founded the Female Choir of the Saint Achilles Church in Arilje and recorded a CD with the title “A Daybreak from Kosovo”. She spreads her experience to the Orthodox nuns of the Latino-American origin, who reside in the Monastery of the Holy Virgin in Godoncourt in France. With Jelisaveta Arsenijević Sladana established in 2002 a Female Vocal duet “Duhovna lira” which took part in a number of spiritual and cultural music events throughout Serbia and on EU festivals. Sladana was engaged in maintenance and research of the traditional music within the „Izvor“ Serbian Cultural Society by the Saint Sava Church in Paris, where she founded a female singers group. In 2002 Sladana started school of voice techniques and positioning at the Studio of Vesna Predojević Milovanović, an artist and master of musicals and operettas of the Terazije Theater in Belgrade, later professor of voice positioning at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. Sladjana performs music along the school of the world recognized singers of Zinka Kunc and Stanoje Jakovic.

Aleksandra Borota was born in 1969 and since 1991 lives in Belgrade. More than a decade she learns playing violin in the School of Music „Fran Lhotka„ in Sisak, and was member of the string orchestra. For many years Aleksandra was member of the church choir and cherished the spiritual music, as the member of the professional choir which maintains the urban and traditional music. In 2007 Aleksandra took part at the recordings for the archives carried by the Radio Belgrade. In 2005 Aleksandra started school of voice techniques and positioning at the Studio of Vesna Predojević Milovanović, an artist and master of musicals and operettas of the Terazije Theater in Belgrade, later professor of voice positioning at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. Sladjana performs music along the school of the world recognized singers of Zinka Kunc and Stanoje Jakovic.

Songs performed by sisters Aleksandra and Slađana Borota are beautiful, majestic and dignified, as they are deeply rooted into the ethics and the most precious human principles, since they origin from the suffering spirit of the people, that greatly contributed to their poetics. It is known that the most beautiful feelings and the most wonderful art spring from great suffering and passion.