Kristi Stassinopoulou

Kristi Stassinopoulou could very well be probably the most visible performer of 1 of the most recent innovations to world music — the ethnotrance motion — and among only an extremely few based both geographically and culturally in European countries. With early contact with Byzantine hymns and regional traditional forms, Stassinopoulou quickly embraced the Mediterranean radio variety, investing amount of time in Arab, Spanish, Italian, and Balkan music. Falling along with touring hippie visitors, she also required a strong desire for psychedelic rock and roll, basing a lot of her first focus on Jefferson Aircraft and their kindred spirits. Parts in several musicals and Western music festivals, aswell as period spent performing addresses of American punk, led ultimately to conference Stathis Kalyviotis, a multi-instrumentalist and composer who became both her spouse and co-founder of Selena, a little garage rock and roll, punk, and cover music group that obtained moderate achievement and an area following, but quickly disbanded. Following that, she shifted into more single efforts (frequently getting duets with Kalyviotis), gaining average achievement with 1997’s debut record, Ifantokosmos, and extraordinary achievement with her 1999 sophomore outing, Echotropia (getting number two in the Western european world music graphs soon after discharge). She released Secrets from the Rocks world-wide in 2003.