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Goran Vejvoda

Goran Vejvoda (; born in 1956 ) is an English-born Serbian composer, sound and visual artist, performance artist, photographer, writer and actor based in France. Early life Son of the Yugoslav

Goran Vejvoda (; born in 1956 ) is an English-born Serbian composer, sound and visual artist, performance artist, photographer, writer and actor based in France. Early life Son of the Yugoslav diplomat who had managed to parlay his prior communist revolutionary activity (including being a foreign volunteer fighter in the Spanish Civil War as well as prominent Partisan guerrilla fighter during World War II) into a post-war diplomatic career, Goran was born in London during the time his father was stationed there as FPR Yugoslavia’s ambassador to the United Kingdom. The family relocated to Rome in 1960 when his father was reassigned to be the ambassador in Italy. In 1967, the family was on the move again, this time to Paris where his father was named as the Yugoslav ambassador to France. Finally, in 1971 his father took an advisory job at the Yugoslav Foreign Ministry, which meant that 15-year-old Goran came to Belgrade. Activity In the early 1980s Vejvoda briefly fronted Annoda Rouge band/project with then-girlfriend Bebi Dol on vocals, Slobodan Trbojevic on bass and Vd on drums. The band never released any official material for commercial exploitation. Later, Vejvoda collaborated o

Era
21st Century
Lived
1956–present
From
United Kingdom
Born in
London
Known as
composer, photographer, journalist, actor, record producer, musician