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Artist
Drina
12+ albums
serbianfolk90svocal00s
about
Drina (Дрина in Serbian) is one of few urban groups in Yugoslavia which perform traditional Serbian songs using authentic vocal technique. It is duet and its members are Svetlana Spajic and Minja Nikolic. These two young singers also performs the songs from other Balkan areas, primarily from Bulgaria and Macedonia using vocal styles typical for these areas, but mostly their repertoire consists of traditional songs from all areas where the Serbs live or used to live (until the war events in this decade, expulsions and migrations). For their work they use exclusively field-recordings of village singing or go directly to the villages, searching for new songs and traditional manners of singing. Drina started its work in Belgrade in 1999. but both singers have their singing experience. Svetlana Spajic started learning and singing traditional songs in 1993. and she was one of the founders of the young urban group "Moba" (Harvest Helpers). Together with traditional player, Darko Macura, she is a member of the First Traditional Balkan Ensemble which gathered in 1995. some fifteen best Balkan traditional performers from Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey, Albania and Serbia. She sings also Bulgarian, Macedonian and Greek songs (including those from Asia Minor) and she is the only Yugoslav singer who performs Tuvan diphonic way of singing called "khoomei". Minja Nikolic is young and estimated jazz-singer and leads the female jazz vocal group The Four. Although their music taste is rath
