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He was born in a picturesque village that
no one ever gave thought to leaving, and he's now known
in every corner of the globe. Yanni is, without a doubt,
a musical phenomenon, one of those rare artists whose music
defies borders and boundaries - whose music speaks to people
of all races, all nations. And there is more than ample
evidence to support such statements.
How many artists have become the favored composer
of every Olympic broadcast for the past decade? Sold-out
Radio City Music Hall for ten dates? Played in the shadow
of the Taj Mahal, the Forbidden City and the Parthenon?
Toured China and more than twenty other nations? Had a TV
special seen in 65 countries by half a billion people, was
one of the top fundraising artists for PBS, and released
what became the #2 best-selling music video of all time?
Mounted the #1-ranked concert tour for 1998, and #2 for
the entire year even though he did not tour for the second
half?
Yanni has always charted a solitary and distinctive
path. A champion swimmer and self-taught pianist with the
gift of perfect pitch, he left the comforts of Kalamata,
Greece, on the spectacular shores of the deep blue Mediterranean,
and then began to fashion his own kind of American success
story, later to become an international success story.
After graduating from the University of Minnesota
with a B.A. in psychology, after trading the Grecian sunshine
for frosty winters, Yani would seek a life in music, though
he could not read a note and wrote wholly original works
that, then and now, defy categorizing. From the beginning,
he operated with a simple creed: a faith in hard work and
keeping an open mind.
Yanni's first Grammy-nominated album was Dare
to Dream (1992), which produced the vocal single "Aria,"
popularized by an award-winning British Airways commercial.
His following album, In My Time, a gentler collection of
piano-focused pieces, was also nominated for a Grammy Award
and attained Platinum status. In 1994 Yanni achieved a personal
triumph when he returned to his Greek homeland and recorded
an album at the 2,000-year-old Herod Atticus Theatre in
Athens. The result, Yanni: Live At The Acropolis, would
be a sensation. It has almost continuously remained on the
charts since its release, sold more than seven million copies
worldwide, earned more than 35 platinum and gold albums,
and risen to becoming one of the best-selling music videos
of all time.
How to follow the unprecedented success of
Live At The Acropolis? By becoming the first major Western
Artist ever to perform and record at India's Taj Mahal and
China's Forbidden City, resulting in the multi-platinum
album Tribute. This is an artist who invested millions of
dollars into the project before a single sound was recorded,
whose organization mounted a near biblical effort with the
regional of Uttar Pradesh to improve roads and build two
bridges in order that the flood plains surrounding the Taj
Mahal could be transformed for three historic concerts beneath
one of the world's greatest wonders. While allowing India's
citizens to see a musical performance in front of the country's
signature structure, Tribute ultimately led to three million
dollars in donations to a Taj preservation fund. The recording
of Tribute proceeded to China, where Yanni staged a new
historic feat at another of the world's great architectural
achievements, The Forbidden City. Between India and China,
Yani played to a collective audience of 250 million people.
In 2000 Yanni released his first studio album in seven years,
If I Could Tell You, an introspective and deeply personal
project which came in the wake of a two-year sabbatical,
a move to the east coast of the U.S., and other changes
which refocused his life and his life's work.
Yanni is an artist that crosses all demographics
in his appeal. Recently he returned to PBS with a new television
special, Live At Royal Albert Hall, London, offering not
only a spectacular concert appearance in this historic venue,
but also the first glimpse into his family home in Greece
and recording studio in Florida.
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