Eleftheria Arvanitaki


Eleftheria Arvanitaki’s musical career began in the early 1980s in Athens where she made a name for herself fronting her own group, Opisthidromiki Kompania, before launching her solo career in 1985. By the mid-1990s, she had gained an audience in Greece and beyond when the historic jazz label Verve issued her album, Eleftheria Arvanitaki—The Very Best of 1989–1998. This proved to be a springboard into her international acclaim and started her along the road towards years of celebrated musical collaborations and appearances at international music festivals and concert halls the world over.

Throughout a career spanning three decades, Arvanitaki has toured extensively, performing in celebrated concert venues including: La Cigale in Paris; Madison Square Garden and Town Hall in New York; Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Barbican Centre in London; the Sydney Opera House in Australia; Teatro Albeniz in Madrid and Palau de la Música in Barcelona; Wiener Konzerthaus in Vienna, Carré in Amsterdam and many more. Festival appearances include performances at Womad, the Montreux Jazz Festival, the North Sea Jazz Festival, the Sfinks festival in Belgium, the Millennium End Festival in Barcelona, “Los Veranos de la Villa” Festival in Madrid, and the Stimmen Festival in Germany, among others. Notably, in June 2006, she opened the renewed Greek Festival, giving two sold out concerts at Greece’s renowned Odeon of Herodes Atticus in Athens in which she performed the songs for films created by Greek Academy Award-winning composer Manos Hadjidakis. In 2000, she had the honor of singing for the Pope as part of the Jubileum della Terra, and in 2004 sang as part of the closing ceremony of the Athens Olympic Games. Her concert at the famous Carnegie Hall Theatre in New York in February 2014 is perhaps the most important concert she has ever given outside Greece. In May 2017, she returned to London's Royal Festival Hall giving one more sold out performance to London's esteemed hall and in November 2017 she toured in Germany and Switzerland; all six concerts were sold out.

Notable collaborations include performances with Cesaria Evora, Buika, Dulce Pontes, Teofilo Chantre, and Amaral among others. She performed the traditional Greek song Tzivaeri as part of composer Philip Glass’s work Orion—a piece inspired by the musical traditions of the five continents. She also collaborated with Spanish composer and Grammy winning-producer Javier Limón on two albums—her own Mírame, which combines sounds and rhythms from Greece, Spain, Cuba and Northern Africa, and his album. Mujeres de Agua alongside vocalists Mariza, Estrella Morente, and Buika. In Greece, all her albums go platinum, and her live performances, around 100 per year, are a huge success.

In September 2010, Arvanitaki travelled to Ivory Coast as a UNICEF Ambassador for the Campaign to eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus.

She keeps in releasing music and she gives concerts every year in Greece and abroad.

She is currently on tour with Eleonora Zouganeli.

Spotify profile: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4wfucl2s2farNOAmxZAVTC?si=fCxxeXjGQiio3huIxf8JvA