Goran Vejvoda ( Serbian: Горан Вејвода, ''Goran Vejvoda'') (born 1956 in

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, United Kingdom) is an English-born, French-based, Serbian media artist (musician, composer, sound and visual artist, performance artist, photographer, writer, and actor).

Early life

Son of the Yugoslav diplomat who had been a foreign volunteer fighter in the

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as well as prominent

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during

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, Goran was born in London because his father was

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's ambassador to

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at the time. In 1960, the family relocated to

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as his father got reassigned to be the ambassador in Italy. In 1967 the family was on the move to

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where his father got named as the Yugoslav ambassador to France. Finally, in 1971 his father got an adviser job at the Yugoslav Foreign Ministry, which meant that 15-year-old Goran came to

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Activity

In the early 1980s Vejvoda briefly fronted Annoda Rouge band/project with then-girlfriend

Bebi Dol Dragana Todorović ( , / ; born 2 October 1962), better known under the stage name Bebi Dol (), is a Serbian singer and songwriter. Born in Belgrade, she made her debut in 1981 with the single "Mustafa". Bebi Dol rose to further prominence by ...

on vocals, Slobodan Trbojevic on bass and Vd on drums. The band never released any official material for commercial exploitation. Later, Vejvoda collaborated on Bebi Dol's solo hit-singles "Mustafa" and "Rudi" as well as her ''Ruze i krv'' album. Vejvoda also worked on the studio recordings of Kozmetika,

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, and

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's seminal ''Odbrana i poslednji dani'' album (for a short time during 1982, he was the band's official member). He additionally collaborated with

Šarlo akrobata Šarlo Akrobata ( sr-Cyrl, Шарло Акробата; trans. ''Charlot the Acrobat'', a Serbo-Croatian language version of Charlie Chaplin's name in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) were a seminal Serbian new wave/post-punk band from Belgrade. Short- ...

members Koja and Vd on the ''

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'' soundtrack as well as co-producing Elvis J. Kurtović & His Meteors' 1984 debut album '' Mitovi i legende o kralju Elvisu''. Simultaneously, he wrote for ''

Džuboks ''Džuboks'' ( sr-cyr, italic=yes, Џубокс, trans. ''Jukebox'') was a Yugoslav music magazine. Launched in 1966, it was the very first magazine in SFR Yugoslavia dedicated predominantly to rock music and the first rock music magazine to be p ...

'' and ''

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'' music magazines, doing interviews with the likes of

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, etc. He published photographs in ''

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'' magazine and did the cover photos on ''

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'' album as well as

Električni orgazam Električni Orgazam ( sr-cyr, Електрични Оргазам, lit=Electric Orgasm, translit=) is a Serbian rock band from Belgrade. Originally starting as a combination of new wave, punk rock and post-punk, the band later slowly changed th ...

's self-titled debut album. With Slobodan Cicmil, Vejvoda co-wrote a book about Brian Eno called ''Zaobilazne strategije'' (Oblique strategies) published in 1986. Around the same time, Vejvoda ventured into acting - playing the role of Russian painter

El Lissitzky Lazar Markovich Lissitzky (russian: link=no, Ла́зарь Ма́ркович Лиси́цкий, ; – 30 December 1941), better known as El Lissitzky (russian: link=no, Эль Лиси́цкий; yi, על ליסיצקי), was a Russian artist ...

in a TV movie ''Ruski umetnički eksperiment'' directed by

Boris Miljković Boris Miljković ( Serbian-Cyrillic: Борис Миљковић; born 3 April 1956 in Zagreb, PR Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian film director, screenwriter, creative director in advertising and writer. Biography Boris Miljković studie ...

and Branimir Dimitrijević. In 1985 Vejvoda moved to

where he continued his visual art, musical studio work, composing music for ballet, theatre, film. television, performing etc. In 1996 he composed the music for

Enki Bilal Enki Bilal (born Enes Bilal; born 7 October 1951) is a French comic book creator, comics artist and film director. Biography Early life Bilal was born in Belgrade, PR Serbia, Yugoslavia, to a Czech mother, Ana, who came to Belgrade as child from ...

's film ''Tykho Moon'' and the original score for his 2004 film '' Immortel''.

Discography

*''In The Mooncage'' with

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(1986) *''Oko 3'' (Barclay 1992) *''La Peau du Monde'' (Fairplay 1993) *''The Dreambird'' with

(Comep - Brazil - 1994) *''Mikroorganizmi'' with

Rambo Amadeus Antonije Pušić (; born 14 June 1963), known professionally as Rambo Amadeus () is a Montenegrin author. A self-titled "musician, poet, and media manipulator", he is a noted artist across the countries of former Yugoslavia. His songs combine ...

( Komuna 1996) *''Tykho Moon'' (Makhno 1997) *''Le sommeil du monstre'' (Versailles - Sony 1998) *''Fruit Cloud'' (Galerie de Pop Co.,Ltd - Japan - 1999) *''Harmonie'' (Galerie de Pop Co.,Ltd - Japan - 2000) *''Zerone - What'' (Maat 2003) *''Immortel'' (Une musique de film - 2004) *''Vibrö - The Broken Tales Issue'' (2004) *''La chute implique d'autres sens'' with Claudia Huidobro (Limited edition 2007) *''A square of silence a circle of sound'' (Gala Ghenmar - 2007)

References

External links

Biography on Official Website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vejvoda, Goran Yugoslav musicians Living people 1956 births Serbian record producers