Haos In Laos was a Macedonian

Macedonians (ethnic group)

The Macedonians also referred to as Macedonian Slavs: "... the term Slavomacedonian was introduced and was accepted by the community itself, which at the time had a much more widespread non-Greek Macedonian ethnic consciousness...

 New Romantic

New Romantic

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 and later a Pop

Pop music

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 band from Skopje

Skopje

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, SR Macedonia from 1984–1987. Its frontman Risto Samardžiev, formerly a vocalist of the band Cilindar

Cilindar

Cilindar is a New Wave, Ska, 2 Tone and Reggae band from Skopje, the Republic of Macedonia formed in the early 1980s, in the then SR Macedonia, SFR Yugoslavia.Today its former members are respectable solo or band artists in the Macedonian music scene:...

, later started a successful solo career as a pop singer, while its drummer

Drummer

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 Borjan Jovanovski, later became a prominent journalist in the Republic of Macedonia

Republic of Macedonia

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, specialized on EU issues, a correspondent of Voice of America

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 from Skopje and a spokesman

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 of the former President of the Republic of Macedonia

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 Boris Trajkovski

Boris Trajkovski

Trajkovski died on 26 February 2004 in a plane crash en route to an economic conference in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The aircraft crashed in thick fog and heavy rain on a mountainside in southeastern Herzegovina, near the villages of Huskovici and Rotimlja some eight miles south-south-east...

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The guitarist of the Haos In Laos was Zlatan Milivojevic.

See also

• Music of the Republic of Macedonia
  Music of the Republic of Macedonia
  Music of the Republic of Macedonia and the Macedonians has many things in common with the music of neighbouring Balkan countries, but maintains its own distinctive sound.-Folk music:...
  
  
• SFR Yugoslav pop and rock scene