Svetlana Spajic (Svetlana Spajich, Светлана Спајић) has been for eighteen years researching the ancient, orally transmitted vocal traditions and peculiar expressive idioms of Serbian and Balkan non-tempered acapella singing, its unique vocal techniques and ornamentation. She learned from the best local singers of traditional music and in the meantime collaborated with the likes of Yanka Rupkina, Domna Samiou, Stella Chiweshe, Boban Markovic, Boris Kovac, Darko Macura and conceptual artist Marina Abramovic. She also regularly performs with Belgrade band Belo Platno and works and researches with famous Serbian bagpipe player and singer Bokan Stankovic.

Her first album, Živa voda, was released in 2000 in duet with singer Minja Nikolic. Žegar živi, published in 2008, was a result of several years of research of traditional Dalmatian singing in the Croatian village of Žegar and surrounding area, inhabited by members of Serbian minority, released in cooperation with the English musician Andrew Cronshaw. This album is being praized as the most significant project in the area of preservation of musical heritage in the territories of former Yugoslavia in the last decade and has met with high critical acclaim in many British and European media. This year she performed at WOMAD festival in Great Britain together with Andrew Cronshaw, Tigran Aleksanyian and Ian Blake. One of these performances was broadcast live by BBC.

However, Svetlana Spajic is not just and foremost a singer of traditional ethnic music, but a phenomenon whose imposing stage and artistic presence reveals deep, obssesive and elemental dedication and effort to restore contact with the greatest themes in the history of Western civilisation: Eros and Thanatos.