I was born in Athens in 1985 and I grew up in a suburb 30 km away from the capital.

Since I was a child I had this feeling I was living a double life.

 

In one of them, I was sitting in front of some huge monitors – or they seemed huge to me back then – listening to the radio for hours. I was fascinated by the unknown. Which song will play next? In my other life, things were moving in a circular way and predictable fashion. I was making friends, losing friends, falling in love, falling out of love and all over again.

 

In one of them, I was keeping diaries in an almost obsessive way, I was memorizing song lyrics and I was observing people. In the other one, I was talking incessantly, in a clumsy effort to communicate the fact that something was silencing me. And I could see myself mirroring in many textured surfaces.

 

I started studying classical piano when I was 9. I was lucky enough to have Foteini Triantafyllou as a teacher. Together we made it to the degree. But what I really wanted to do was sing. Even though I did not quite know it back then. I got the degree and closed the piano.

 

Studying Philology was not a conscious choice of mine but rather a speedy one. Thankfully, a pleasant surprise was waiting for me in the university. Linguistics. My diaries were full of words and now I could decode their power. That´s when a persistent question of mine was answered “why do female surnames distress me so much”. They are put in genitive case. Genitive of Possession. 

 

Upon completing my studies, I lived for some time between Athens and abroad. I met a lot of people, I changed a lot of jobs, I had fun. I started writing again. Poetry this time. 27 years old. Time to return home for good. And “for good”, to me, meant taking the piano from my parents’ house and starting voice classes.

 

I am putting my fingers on the keys and I suddenly remember there is something I really wanted to say.

My two lives unite. Everything becomes one.

Songwriter.