Goran Vejvoda

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Goran Vejvoda (born 1956 in London, United Kingdom) is an English-born, French-based, Serbian multimedia artist (musician, composer, photographer, writer, and actor).

Though born in London, Vejvoda grew up in Belgrade.

In the early 1980s he briefly fronted Annouda Rouge with Bebi Dol on vocals, and Vd behind the drums. The band never released any official material for commercial exploatation.

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, D'Boys, and VIS Idoli's seminal Odbrana i poslednji dani album. He additionaly collaborated with Šarlo akrobata members on Dečko koji obećava soundtrack.

Simultaneously, he wrote for Dzuboks and Rock music magazines, doing interviews with the likes of David Byrne, Brian Eno, etc. He published photographs in Izgled magazine and did the cover photos on Paket aranžman album as well as Električni orgazam's self-titled debut album.

With Slobodan Cicmil, he co-wrote a book about Brian Eno called Zaobilazne strategije published in 1986. Around the same time, Vejvoda dabbled in acting - playing the role of Russian painter El Lissitzky in a TV movie Ruski umetnicki eksperiment directed by Boris Miljkovic and Branko Dimitrijevic.

In mid-1980s Vejvoda moved to Paris where he continued his musical studio work, composing music for ballet, theatre, film. television, etc.

In 1996 he compsed the music for Enki Bilal's film Tykho Moon.

Recently, he continued his work with Bilal, composing, with Sigur Rós, the original score for his 2004 film Immortel (Ad Vitam).