Goran Trajkoski

Goran Trajkoski
Birth name	Goran Trajkoski
Born	(1963-11-21) 21 November 1963 Veles, Republic of Macedonia
Origin	Struga, Republic of Macedonia
Genres	Punk, post-punk, dark wave, gothic rock, electronic, ethnic
Occupation(s)	Vocalist, musician, songwriter
Years active	1979–present
Associated acts	Afektiven naboj Padot na Vizantija Anastasia Mizar

Goran Trajkoski (Macedonian: Горан Трајкоски) (born 21 November 1963) is an eminent Macedonian musician. He rose to international prominence as a frontman of the group Anastasija which was featured on the soundtrack album for the Academy Award nominated movie Before the Rain directed by Milčo Mančevski. He started his musical career as a member of the punk rock band Afektiven naboj from Struga. After moving to Skopje he joined the punk band Saraceni led by Vladimir Petrovski Karter. Later he was a vocalist of the influential 1980s group Padot na Vizantija. After the reunion of the Macedonian cult band Mizar in the 2000s, Goran Trajkovski became its new frontman. He is also involved in solo projects, for instance as an author of electronic music under the pseudonym Gotra (Готра) as well as a composer for film soundtracks and theatre music.

Sources

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