Chris Olympios

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Chris was born in Sydney Australia and at the age of 10 he told his father that he wanted to learn that “Greek” instrument “the bouzouki”! He started taking lessons from George Petrakopoulos but after about 6 months Mr Petrakopoulos returned to Greece so Chris continued on his own. By the age of 11 he was performing in Greek nightclubs on the weekends. He steadily became very popular and was often called “the child wonder”! He performed on various TV programs and took first place on a TV talent show. His popularity grew and he became well known amongst the Greek community all over Australia which he toured on many occasions. He was an inspiriation to many young Greek boys who also wanted to learn the bouzouki to be like “Christaki” as he was known by all. At one stage he had about 50 students including some girls! When Chris was 13 he and his family went to Cyprus, where his parents are from and also made a number of appearances there at night clubs and festivals before going on to London and Greece. In Greece he appeared on the talent show “Here is your chance” taking out the first place getting 10 out of 10 from all the judges including George Katsaros and Rosita Sokou. Chris then returned to Australia to finish school. In 1990 Chris returned to Greece to begin his career starting off with Manolis Topalis travelling all over Greece, and spending 6 months in Thessaloniki where he met the great Aki Panou who was a big inspiration to him. He then went on to work with artists such as Eleni Roda with whom he performed for Prime minister Karamanlis. Then came a tour with Lakis Halkias all over Greece and America. In 1992-93 Chris worked with George Margaritis touring Greece, Europe and America. Then a brief period with Stathis Angelopoulos touring Greece. In 1995 Chris started a long term collaboration with Anna Vissi. 2001 to 2003 was spent with Kaiti Garbi. Then the winter season 2004-2005 Chris worked with Paschalis Terzis at Iera Odo. The following season 2005-2006 Chris returned to Anna Vissi and performed at Votanikos. All of 2007 was spent on Anna Vissi’s world tour! December 2007 begins a new collaboration with Despina Vandi at Diogenis Studio with Vasilis Karas. After this the show went to Thessaloniki at "Odeon" which was followed by various open air concerts. In October 2008 Despina toured Australia performing in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. On December 21st Despina Vandi performed in Lefkosia Cyprus.