Alexia

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Website: http://www.alexiamusic.com

Real Name/Full Name: Alexia Vasileiou

Born On: February 5 1964

Genres: World

Styles: Greek Pop, Jazz

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English Biography

1964-1980: Born on February 5th 1964, in Famagusta, Cyprus, Alexia's charismatic nature in music was demonstrated from a very early age. However, the coup d' etat in July 1974 that aimed to overthrow the established government, followed by the Turkish invasion and occupation of the island's north region, forced many people including Alexia, to be displaced from their homes. From that moment on they were refugees in their own country. �Despite the harshness and severity of the time, Alexia was encouraged by her family to pursue her dream and explore her promising talent. �As a result she was drawn to music at a very young age by performing at music festivals and on television but at the same time she was eager to explore her musical interests through formal training.

1981:�Alexia's first "official" entry in the music scene was the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest, while she was still in high school. She participated as a member of the group "Island" with the song "Monica", composed by Doros Georgiadis and Stavros Sideras. In 1987 she represented Cyprus in the Eurovision song contest for the second time with the song "Aspro-Mavro," composed by Antros and Maria Papapavlou. Aspro-Mavro, which came out under the label of Air Music, became platinum in the Scandinavian countries.

1982: During her sophomore year, she was chosen by CBS New York to record the theme song for the album I am Siam.� The soundtrack was composed and arranged by Brian Rothschild and the lyrics were written by Stefan Vienna (Steve Wiener). Another great musician, Larry Fast (Synergy, Peter Gabriel), was the co-producer and co-responsible for the innovative synthesizer sound. �"I Am Siam" was produced by David Sonenberg, who was Meatloaf�s manager at the time and more recently of the Fugees and the Black-Eyed Peas. "I Am Siam" reached the Billboard�s Top 100 and received airplay on the East Coast of the USA.

1985: In her senior year she had the privilege of singing in two big concerts organized by Berklee College of Music and Chick Corea at the Berklee Performance Center, thanks to her teacher Ken Greenhouse, who was head of the voice department. She was among the few students to perform as only one student from each music department was selected to participate. �Alexia sang �Hello Brazil,� a yet unreleased 15 minute musical piece, composed by Chick Corea especially for that occasion. �

Additional contributions to the concerts were made by the great singer/pianist Gayle Moran (Mahavishnu Orchestra). �Since then Alexia has maintained close relations with both Chick Corea and Gayle Moran and nine years later she had the opportunity to work together with Chick Corea for her Jazz album "In a Jazz Mood." Part of the album "In a Jazz mood" was recorded at Chick Corea's old studio in Los Angeles, the "Mad Hatter."

1985-87: After her graduation from Berklee College of Music in 1985, she moved to New York where she performed for several years and gradually became the lead singer of four different Jazz and Fusion bands. Axiom was one of them. �Alexia and her bands used to play gigs around Manhattan as New York was at that time one of the most promising places for new artists. �The City was booming with creativity and talent�many remarkable musicians, each one with his/her own legacy in music history, were living and creating music in the heart of New York. �

Jaco Pastorius, Hiram Bullock, Omar Hakim, Art Blakey, Gil Evans, Kenwood Denard, Jack DeJohnette, Steve Gadd, Tania Maria, Chaka Khan, Phyllis Hyman, Andy Laverne, Danny Gottlieb, the Brecker Brothers, Eliane Elias, Joe Zawinul, Weather Report with Wayne Shorter, Kenny Kirkland, David Sanborn, John Abercrombie are just a few great musicians who have been and are still a source of inspiration for Alexia.

Around the same period of time, she had the opportunity to meet with Lionel Hampton and Wayne Shorter at one of her gigs at Jason's, in Manhattan. �

In 1987 Alexia represented Cyprus in the Eurovision song contest for the second time with the song "Aspro-Mavro," thus triggering the beginning of her music career in Greece and Europe. �"Aspro-Mavro" was composed by Antros and Maria Papapavlou and under the label of Air Music it became platinum in Greece and the Scandinavian countries.

1988-2000: From the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s she has recorded over 20 albums most of which became gold and platinum. Her debut solo album "Alexia" (released by Polygram) has sold over 300,000 copies since its first release, thus becoming three times platinum.

During this period, she collaborated with great composers, lyricists, artists and musicians from all over the world. To name a few:

Mikis Theodorakis, Kostas Kapnisis, Chick Corea, John Patitucci, Gary Novak, Gayle Moran,Costas Cacoyannis, Linda Bourbon, Antoni Donchev, Andreas Vollenweider, Milva, Peter Massink, Fergus Currie, Christos Christofis, Aristides Mytaras, Marios Meletiou, Claire Angelidou(former minister of Culture and Education of Cyprus), Takis Binis (one of the most well known names of Rembetiko), Christos Filippou, Makis Delaportas (producer and collector-archivist of most old Greek films' soundtrack music), Stamatis Kraounakis, George Hadjinassios, Costas Tournas, Mimis Plessas, Christian Leibl, Costas Haritodiplomenos, George Mitsiggas, Antros and Maria Papapavlou, Brian Rothschild, Stefan Vienna (Steve Weiner) and Larry Fast.

2000-2005: �In an effort to explore new ways of thinking and expression, Alexia devoted part of her time to the study of creative writing with alternative Nobel Prize nominee and feminist activist Christiana Lambrinides. �Through a series of workshops over a period of five years, Alexia was able to obtain valuable knowledge on such diverse, yet interrelated concepts, that are directly related to creative expression and writing such as performativity (link), gender studies (link wikipedia), feminist studies (link wikipedia) and art.

During this time she had the opportunity to come across and study the work of many classic authors, theorists and activists like Nobel Prize winner in Literature Toni Morrison, Djuna Barnes, Helene Cixous, Jacques Derrida, Georges Bataille, Louise Bourgeois, Gertrude Stein, Michel Foucault, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton.

2000-2008:

New Music

Since 2000 Alexia has also been working on the production of her two new albums: �

�Re-Be� is a triple album, which encompasses for the first time Alexia's own music compositions, lyrics, narratives and improvisations. �

The Jazz album Birds Have to Fly, for which Alexia wrote all the lyrics, was composed, orchestrated and performed by horn player Peter Massink.

Both albums will be released by Track7music in Athens, Greece.

Along with the recordings of her new albums, Alexia continued to work on a series of voice improvisations, entitled "Voice Alone," by just using her digital recording device and a simple microphone. �The "Voice Alone" series will form part of a broader upcoming project called �The Improvisation Series.� �The concept of this new project is based on experimental music work, something that Alexia has been working on for many years.

For this project Alexia has been co-improvising and recording with musicians from Athens, Thessalonica, Syria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, New York, Los Angeles, Armenia, Israel and Paris. �The project is still in progress and once it�s completed it will also be released by Track7music.

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Artist	Alexia +
Artist Type	Artist +
Bd	February 5 1964 +
Birth Date	5 February 1964 +
Genre	World +
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RID	1,802,152 +
Style	Greek Pop +, and Jazz +

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