Sherilyn Fenn was a Belgrade band formed in the fall of 1996 by Milan Bogdanović (vocal, guitar), Staffan Sladik (bass), Ivan Miljojković (vocal, guitar) and Bogdan Bogdanović (drums). All members were 16 and 17 years old at the time.

Sherilyn Fenn had a short career on the Belgrade indie circuit, marred by turbulent outside events and was never able to reach a wider audience, due to lack of support from the music ’industry’ of its time. The band played a series of gigs at relevant Belgrade alternative venues of the late 90s (KST, SKC, Dom Omladine etc.), occasionally performing outside the capital, as well (Novi Sad, Pančevo…)

The beginnings were marked by strong influences of early 80s New York new/no wave, Sonic Youth primarily. Other influences included such bands as Joy Division and Velvet Underground. All this resulted in frequent experimenting with different guitar tunings and using spoken word vocals rather than traditional singing. During the first couple of years, Sherilyn Fenn wrote lyrics in Serbian.

That changed around 1998, as the band developed searching for its own sound, using standard tunings, as well as more traditional singing (now mostly in English).

Throughout its career, Sherilyn Fenn recorded a total of 8 songs, at different stages and various sessions at Belgrade studios suited for demo recordings. The first session (1997) resulted with 3 songs (Rosa Luxemburg, Sotona je Velik and Osmeh), which enjoyed moderate air play by alternative and mainstream radio stations in support of early live gigs. In 1998, the band recorded (at separate studio sessions) 2 songs (Glas iz Magle and 250). A video was shot for the former, representing a kind of an anomaly in the indie approach by most of Sherilyn Fenn’s peers at the time. Namely, the video for Glas iz Magle was shot by a director associated with Serbian mainstream ’artists’ of the late 90s. Nevertheless, the band managed to retain creative control and saw this as a chance to flirt with the mainstream, not as compromise. The video had heavy rotation on various TV stations. However, due to the chaotic events in the country in 1999 and 2000, the band failed to capitalize upon this.

Sherilyn Fenn was inactive during most of 1999. The last phase of the band’s work began with personal changes – Stefan Sladić quit in the fall of 1999, being replaced by Miloš Bogdanović and, subsequently, Boris Dakić. . In 2000 Sherilyn Fenn remained a three-piece, with Ivan Miljojković and Milan Bogdanović distributing bass duties among themselves. This line-up played a few more gigs before finally calling it quits later that year.