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Goran Trajkoski (born 21 November 1963) is an eminent Macedonian

Macedonians (ethnic group)

The Macedonians also referred to as Macedonian Slavs: "... the term Slavomacedonian was introduced and was accepted by the community itself, which at the time had a much more widespread non-Greek Macedonian ethnic consciousness...

musician. He rose to international prominence as a frontman of the group Anastasija

Anastasia (band)

Anastasia is a Macedonian music group.Formed in 1990, their members are:*Goran Trajkoski *Zlatko Origjanski Anastasia is a Macedonian music group.Formed in 1990, their members are:*Goran Trajkoski (ex Saraceni, Padot na Vizantija, Mizar, Aporea)*Zlatko Origjanski Anastasia is a Macedonian music...

which was featured on the soundtrack album

Soundtrack album

A soundtrack album is any album that incorporates music directly recorded from the soundtrack of a particular feature film or television program. In some cases, not all the tracks from the movie are included in the album; however there are rare cases of songs in the trailers that do not appear in...

for the Academy Award nominated movie Before the Rain
Before the Rain (film)
Before the Rain is a 1994 Macedonian film starring Katrin Cartlidge, Rade Šerbedžija, Grégoire Colin, and Labina Mitevska. It was directed and written by Milčo Mančevski. The music was created by the band Anastasia.-Plot:...

directed by Milčo Mančevski

Milco Mancevski

Milcho Manchevski , usually credited as Milcho Manchevski, is a film director and screenwriter from Macedonia.-Biography:Milcho Manchevski wrote and directed the feature films "Before the Rain" , "Dust'" , Shadows" and "Mothers" , over 50 short forms, including “TENNESSEE” for Arrested Development...

. He started his musical career as a member of the punk rock

Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

band Afektiven naboj

Afektiven Naboj

Afektiven Naboj was one of the two punk rock bands formed in 1979 by guitar player Klime Kovaceski and Goran Trajkoski, now an eminent musician from Republic of Macedonia, who rose to international prominence as a frontman of the group Anastasia featured on the soundtrack album for the Academy...

from Struga

Struga

Struga is a town and popular tourist destination situated in the south-western region of the Republic of Macedonia, lying on the shore of Lake Ohrid. The town of Struga is the seat of Struga Municipality.-Etymology:...

. After moving to Skopje

Skopje

Skopje is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Macedonia with about a third of the total population. It is the country's political, cultural, economic, and academic centre...

he joined the punk band Saraceni led by Vladimir Petrovski Karter. Later he was a vocalist of the influential 1980s group Padot na Vizantija

Padot na Vizantija

Padot na Vizantija was an influential 1980s post-punk, darkwave and gothic rock band with occasional Byzantine music elements and Orthodox Christian beliefs from Skopje, SR Macedonia, then a constituent republic of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia...

. After the reunion of the Macedonian cult band Mizar

Mizar (band)

Mizar is a Macedonian rock band from Skopje. They achieved a status of a cult band, especially in Macedonia and across the former Yugoslavia....

in the 2000s, Goran Trajkovski became its new frontman. He is also involved in solo projects, for instance as an author of electronic music

Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...

under the pseudonym

Pseudonym

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Gotra (Готра) as well as a composer for film soundtracks and theatre

Theatre

Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

music.

Sources

"Mizar - 20 years after" by Miodrag Mišolić at the Mizar Official Website
Dragan Pavlov and Dejan Šunjka "Punk u Jugoslaviji" (Punk in Yugoslavia), publisher: IGP Dedalus, Yugoslavia, 1990

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