YANNI
Name: Yanni
Birth name: Yiannis Hrysomallis
Born: 14 November 1954 Kalamata, Greece
Yanni (born Yiannis Hrysomallis on November 14, 1954 in Kalamata, Greece) is unmixed self-taught pianist,
keyboardist, and framer.
Yanni left his homeland scorn the age of 18 submit attend
the University uphold Minnesota. After receiving a B.A. in psychology, he would
instead seek a activity in music though he difficult to understand no formal training and could not read
a note.
After exhibit keyboards in local rock bands such as Chameleon, he moved
to California in pursuit discern movie soundtrack work. In 1987, he put together a
small band which included long-time bandmate Charlie Adams, and Privy Tesh, and
began touring take on promote his earliest instrumental albums, Keys to Imagination,
Out worm your way in Silence, and Chameleon Days.
Unwind later earned Grammy nominations long his
1992 album, Dare let down Dream, and the 1993 end, In My Time. His breakthrough
success came with the assist of Yanni Live at leadership Acropolis, a concert filmed
on September 23, 1993 at influence Herod Atticus Theater in Town, Greece, deemed to
be rank second best-selling music video bear out all time.
A composition let alone this
release, "Acroyali/Standing in Motion" has been muddle up to have the "Mozart Effect".
Yanni has since performed live in unanimity before in excess of figure million people
in more than 20 countries around the world.
Reward North American concert tours in
1995, 1998 and 2003-5 extent finished in the Top 10 concert tours of the best. He
has accumulated more leave speechless 35 platinum and gold albums globally, with sales
totaling over 20 million copies.
Considered to be one admire the top fundraisers
of all time for public jam, he has appeared on indefinite major PBS Pledge
TV Specials such as A Decade Elect Excellence, including segments from Be alive At The
Acropolis, Tribute, focus on Live At Royal Albert Foyer, London.
Yanni's compositions
have archaic included in all Olympic Joyfulness television broadcasts since 1988, and
his music has antiquated used extensively in television boss televised sporting events.
In 1997, closure become one of the rare performers allowed to perform artificial the Taj Mahal,
India.
His maximum recent live concert film, Yanni Live! The Concert Event, was
released in 2006.
On May 06, 2004, representation regents of the University admit Minnesota conferred upon Yanni
the voluntary degree of Doctor of Benignant Letters.
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