Svetlana Spajić

Svetlana Spajić (Serbian Cyrillic: Светлана Спајић, born August 19, 1971, in Loznica, Serbia) 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.

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. 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 a.o.. For many years she has been collaborating with the composer and instrumentalist Boris Kovač as a member of his chamber orchestra “New Ritual Group”. 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.