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Svetlana Spajić (Serbian Cyrillic: Светлана Спајић, born August 19, 1971, in Loznica, Serbia)[1] is a Serbian traditional singer, performer, pedagogue, cultural activist and translator. Apart from performing Serbian traditional music, she is known for cooperation with world-renowned artists like Marina Abramović and Robert Wilson.
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Svetlana Spajić |
| Born | August 19, 1971 Loznica, Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia |
| Origin | Belgrade, Serbia |
| Genres | traditional music, world music, alternative music |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, songwriter, composer |
| Years active | 1993–present |
| Labels | PGP RTS, Multimedia Music, Cloudvalley, WMAS, Karlrecords, Morphine Records |
| Website | svetlanaspajic |
She sang in groups "Paganke", "Moba", "Drina", "New Ritual Group", "Žegar živi", „Belo Platno", "Pjevačka družina Svetlane Spajić" (Svetlana Spajić Group) and other.
She is associate with International Cultural Network "Project Rastko" since its founding in 1997, "Radio Svetigora" and other cultural institutions. She had authored broadcasts dedicated to traditional culture.
She graduated from Philological Faculty in Belgrade (dept. of English and German Languages), as well as from International School for Holocaust Studies at the Institute Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, Israel.
Since 1993, she is dedicated to fostering and preserving Serbian traditional culture, collecting and learning at the field, from source singers of the oldest generation. Her repertoire of Serbian archaic lore from all Serbian ethnic territories also covers the oldest traditional forms from Drina river region, like songs "na glas", "kantalica", "na bas".
Aged 24, in Thessaloníki she was selected, as the youngest member, into the elite Inter-Balkan traditional ensemble made from the best traditional artists of the Balkans (Thessaloníki, First Inter-Balkan Culture Festival, 1995).
She participated in both domestic and international music and theater projects, and performed with world-renowned vocal artists and musicians: Yanka Rupkina, Stella Chiweshe, Domna Samiou, Cherifa Kersit, Sainkho Namtchylak, "Balkan Beat Box", Antony Hegarty, William Basinski, Zeitkratzer, Dario Marušić...
Concerts and lectures, she held in prestigious concert halls, festivals and institutions: WOMAD, WOMEX, Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Konzerthaus (Vienna), Teatro Real (Madrid), Dom (Moscow), Museum of Modern Art (New York), Yad Vashem (Jerusalem), Grotowski Institute (Wroclaw), Roskilde Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), Taipei National Concert Hall, Festival of World Sacred Music in Fes…...
She is artistic director RETNIK festival / platform founded by WMAS in 2015 for transmission of traditional heritage and knowledge through long-term meetings and interaction of the oldest and youngest traditional artists.
For many years she has been collaborating with the composer and instrumentalist Boris Kovač as a member of his chamber orchestra “New Ritual Group”.
She participates in projects of world famous artist Marina Abramović, and in 2011 she was engaged in the theater project "Life and Death of Marina Abramović" led by the eminent director Robert J. Wilson.
In 2020 Svetlana Spajic and musicians Guido Mobius and Andreas Stecher formed the band Gordan. She is also a member of Belgrade alternative group The Cyclist Conspiracy.
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