Viktor's grandparents are born in Pondos, today's
Turkey. They move to Greece due to the population exchange between
Greece and Turkey, 1923.
Viktor himself is born in Greece, from a Greek
father and Macedonian mother.
When his father bankrupts at the time of the Greek
military Junta (60's), the family moves to Yugoslavia, the part later
known as Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM).
It is there that Viktor starts his musical journey,
as a blues guitarist/composer soon nicknamed “Slowhand”.
Forming numerous local bands, his interest expands
to Experimental, Prog and Psychedelic Rock and later New Wave.
Being Twins in the Horoscope, he simultaneously and
secretly develops a great interest in the folk music and rhythms of
Macedonia, and later Serbia, Greece and Bosnia as well.
Secretly, because it was unheard for an ex-hippy to
dwell in some murky folk waters at that time.
Still, this interest gets the shape of a Greek
Bouzouki which soon proves to be a great bread-earner.
On the other hand, the interest in modern music
leads Viktor in the creation of the first Hip-Hop band in Yugoslavia
who sung in its native languages: Serbo-Croatian and Macedonian. The
name of the band was Super Nova. Firstly greeted with great suspicion,
the melodic, chorus-rich rap-tunes brought them recognition in the
underground scene; as well as successful appearances on TV, radio and
most of the greatest unsigned Pop-Festivals at that time.
Falling short of a major contract due to the N-tieth
Balkan War (1990), Viktor moves to the Netherlands, where he acquires
a Degree and knowledge at the SAE – School of Audio Engineering in
Amsterdam.
He also gets a new nickname: this time it's “Viktor
Moore”, due to the similarity of his playing to that of Gary Moore.
Having played rebellious “Western Music” in
Yugoslavia, in the Netherlands he turns to rebelious World Music.
“World Music” in Viktor's case has the following meaning: Blues and
Art/Prog Rock fusion with Greek and Balkan Folk.
That music leaves the Dutch totally unmoved, so at
the end of the last Millennium Viktor moves to London, UK.
Here he continues developing his own World Music
vision, and that results in a few motion pictures projects:
- Some music for a British/Macedonian co-production
movie “Dust” from Milcho Manchevski
- Most of the music for a British Ch4 TV series
called “A Place Under the Sun” - Greece, Spain and France.
Part of his music was also successfully included on
a CD named: “Olympics 2004 – Athens” released by EMI UK.
Now working as a free-lance composer, music teacher and free-lance
journalist at BBC World Radio in London, Viktor continues to develop
his vision of World Music.
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