He was born in Prilep on 28/10/1927. He studied at the Belgrade Music Academy and began his career in 1949 as a recital and radio concert singer. During the years 1951-53 he worked at the Belgrade Comedy Theatre and during the years 1951 to 1960 he performed at the National Theatre in Belgrade. Subsequently, he relocated to Braunschweig, Germany, where he was hired by the city's state theatre (1964-70). He collaborated with the Graz Opera (1970-72) and the Saarländisches Staatstheater Saarbrücken (1972-76), where he also worked as a professor of solo singing. He has performed at the Vienna State Opera (1950 in the title role in Borodin's Prince Igor and 1970 as Friedrich von Telramund in Lohengrin) and the Opéra de Monte-Carlo (1962 as Boyar Fyodor Shaklovity in The Khovansky Affair (Khovanshchina) and 1963 as Prince Igor). He also performed at the State Operas of Berlin and Munich, the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, the Leningrad Opera, the Florence May Music Festival, as well as in Wiesbaden and numerous other cities around the world (Brussels, Strasbourg, Lyon, Warsaw, Sofia, Zagreb, Prague, Chicago, and Montreal). His most notable bass-baritone roles include: Jago (Otello), Alfio (Rustic Chivalry / Cavalleria Rusticana), Escamillo (Carmen), Hans Sachs (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg / Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg). In addition, he was a renowned Lied interpreter. He performed with the GNO in the title role of Prince Igor (1961-62). He has recorded extensively with the MGM-Heliodor and Decca labels in roles of the Russian repertoire (War and Peace, Eugene Onegin, The Khovansky Affair [Khovanshchina], Prince Igor, The Queen of Spades, The Snow Queen). He died in 2001.