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Sophia

About Me


Once upon a time in year 1985 when bad hairstyle,disco and evil furniture design ruled the world, my poor mommy had a baby girl… After the holly torture of orthodox baptize the baby girl was given the name ‘Sophia’ and started her insignificant life in Chania,Crete. And yet, after managing to gain a few inches of height ,surviving greek school, adolescence and braces ;after changing numerous hair colours ,reading a few books ,learning some languages blah blah…realized that all she wanted to do in life is playing music(hurray!)…..and now the ridiculous 3rd person thing ends. IIIII started singing in a metal band called ‘frail entity’ in 16(by manipulating the audience’s ears I think…).I moved to Athens to study history of theatre(boring) but I ended up studying music with various teachers (I owe my throat to my vocal coach and mentor Natasa Flouri)and running around to attend music seminars on jazz and world music.I also studied classical flute for a couple of years(but then again deep down all i want to be is a drummer-preferably in a hardcore band!). Above all ,I’m lucky enough to have a bunch of utterly crazy friends and fellow musicians with whom I took place in all kinds of music projects as a vocalist:trip-hop,experimental stuff,dangerously free improvisations,jazz, cutting edge metal, electro ,hip-hop,latin,blues,traditional music, garage rock n' roll poser music (?),8-hour-favourite-greek-songs marathons and so on... Currently I'm a member of the band Night On Earth and the female choir 'Sanades'.I write lyrics, music, sing and improvise a lot for the above.I've also worked in theatre as a musician and performer. I still haven't got a clue about what kind of 'sound' or 'style' I want to follow in music but I would prefer to skip the stupid habit of categorizing art. My goal as a singer is to use my voice as a musical instrument and not just in way so as to entertain or soothe the audience. I'm deeply interested in exploring the abilities of the human voice.It's definitely an endless trip...
albums : Night On Earth- stage/radio (Outlandish Recordings 2006) Night On Earth - second hand (Sony/BMG 2008)guest star appearances(!!): digital Alkemist: Utopia Vs Reality (Juno Records 2008)www.myspace.com/nightonearth www.myspace.com/sanadachoir
thanks for listening to my music!

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Music:

Member Since: 04/12/2006
Band Website: www.myspace.com/nightonearth
Band Members: singer, flute player under construction
Influences: SiNGERS I admire: Billie Holiday, Oum Kalsoum, Jeff Buckley, Bjork, Aretha Franklin, Bobby McFerrin,Ella Fitzerald, Garm (aka Trickster G. Rex aka Kristoforous Rygg), Angela Gossow, Anneke van Giersbergen, Max Cavalera-Christina Aguilera (it rhymes), Mike Patton, Fairouz, Diamanda Galas, Demetrios Stratos, Nat King Cole, Natasa Flouri, Dayna Kurtz, Tori Amos, Sia Furler, Yma Sumac, Eddie Vedder... ............................... Stuff I love/get inspired of: MUSIC ,silence, whispers, cats, wolves, fairies, astral projection, bellyaches, penguins, whales, pearls, noise, orcas, pink, satan, indigo, hardcore, Japan, manga, dada, vampires, scandinavia, frenzy ,beatboxing, riot grrrls, flutes, 'Sympathy for Lady Vengeance', 'syrinx' by Debussy, surrealism, jazz and free improvising, Jani Christou, abovo, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Sarah Vaughan, Tool, Sepultura, Aziza Mustafa Zadeh, Under Byen, Roald Dahl, Screaming Jay Hawkings, Pearl Jam, drum n' bass, Harry Potter, Philip Poulman, Sheila Jordan, Amon Tobin, John Coltrane, MrBungle, Lost Bodies, Fantomas, Saint-Saens, Johnny Truant, Walls of Jericho,Regina Spector, Angelo Badalamenti, Lilipoupolis, Mono, Meredith Monk, Opeth, sigur ros, Thanassis Papakonstantinou, Danny Elfman, Eivor Palsdottir, the gathering, Norge, Iceland, Ulver, 'little night music', nine inch nails, black/grind/death metal, Tom Waits, Astor Piazzola, Jim Jarmusch, Wong Kar Wai, Martha Freejila,Eleni Vitali, Nikos Veliotis, Paracroussis, Zbigniew Preisner, Madder Mortem, Dorothea Tanning, David Lynch, Motown, Keith Jarrett, Monty Python, Tim Burton, Erik Satie, Jason Moran, dillinger escape plan, meshuggah, 'sophisticated lady', 'nature boy', pansonic, DJ Shadow, 'city of lost children', traditional bulgarian choirs, Baby Dee, portishead, radiohead's 'amnesiac', cocteau twins, Erik Truffaz,Yiorgos Kontrafurious, Sami Amiri, Zach Pinakoulakis-my uncle kicks ass- (& hail to the greek jazz scene ) Polar Bear, traditional greek,arabic,turkish .... music , Fiona Apple, Mugisson, John Zorn, Lena Platonos, Mazzy Star, 'Respiro', Madredeus, Prince, Toni Gatlif, south park, languages...chaos!
Sounds Like: lalallallaaaa aaouuuuaaAAAAAAaaAAAARGHHHHIIIIIxixixixlooaaaaaaaouuuiuiu!!p erforming 'go down moses' and 'down to the river' with the a capella group Sanades www.myspace.com/sanadachoir

a music video for the song 'Prisons' by Night On Earth.Made by the people attented the Synch 2008 music video workshop under the guidance of dipyadeep and stathis mourdoukoutas
Record Label: SONY/BMG

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