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Elena Kay

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Elena was born in Limassol, Cyprus and started playing the piano when she was four. She has a degree in music from Royal Holloway University of London, specializing in performance and composition, as well as a Diploma of Acting from Vladimiros Kafkarides School of Drama in Cyprus.Classically trained and pitch perfect, Elena is an experienced and versatile singer and pianist. She has performed different genres and styles such as pop, rock, latin, jazz, soul and folk. Her performances include the opera Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart) by the Cyprus Opera and the orchestra of Okinawa University of Arts from Japan. She was also soloist in a recital organised by the Rire Pour Deux Mains Association in Bordeaux (France) where she performed songs from around the world. In the UK Elena recorded an album and several singles with the pop-opera band MILAN. She toured around the UK performing with the Irish tenor Peter Corry and sung live on Children in Need (BBC).Elena has worked with various producers and DJs and featured in music videos in Cyprus. She recorded vocals for several albums such as Forever (John Michael Tsiros), Eurasia (Dimitri) and singles (Darkness, Beautiful, Live the moment). She spent six weeks at Number One in radio stations in Cyprus with the song Killer and was awarded by the British Forces radio (BFBS) for the song Para Siempre (voted as one of the best songs of the year 2004). She also received an international award for the song Darkness at the ISC competition in the US (music/lyrics by John Michael Tsiros). The song was later included in the album We Are The World (including songs by the Thrillseekers, DJ Ravin, Carlos Campos, Lange, Kirtsy Hawkshaw, Art of Trance and others).As an actress Elena toured in Europe with the Cyprus National Theatre, worked as third assistant director with Cranberry Films, London, and acted in a couple of short films.At the moment Elena teaches in BIMM (Bristol Institute of Modern Music) and is busy writing her own music.
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Member Since: 30/10/2006
Influences: So many influences! I grew up with Greek, Latin and Folk/Ethnic music. I love Arabic and Latin music, from Salsa to Brazilian Jazz & Funk. I'm a huge fan of dance music, trance, garage and drum and base. Today I like lots of singers and bands from around the world, such as Alanis Morissette, Pendulum, Daft Punk, The Darkness, Keiser Chiefs, Breed 77, Christina Aguilera, Cesaria Evora, Celia Cruz, Shakira, Manu Chao, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Stefanos Korkolis, Ozlem Tekin, Sertab Erener, Gispy Kings and many others.
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Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Unsigned

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