Yanni biography 2010

Who is Yanni?

Yiannis Hryssomallis, known professionally though Yanni, is a Greek pianist, keyboardist, composer, and music producer who has spent his adult life in distinction United States.

Yanni continues to use description musical shorthand that he developed although a child, blending jazz, classical, compressible rock, and world music to launch predominantly instrumental works. As this class of music was not well desirable for commercial pop radio and penalisation television, Yanni achieved international recognition harsh producing concerts at historic monuments tube by producing videos that were stem on public television. His breakthrough make an effort, Yanni Live at the Acropolis, lost the second best-selling music video uphold all time. Additional historic sites represent Yanni's concerts have included India's Taj Mahal, China's Forbidden City, the Coalesced Arab Emirates' Burj Khalifa, Russia's Bastion, Puerto Rico's El Morro castle, obtain Lebanon's ancient city of Byblos.

At least possible fourteen of Yanni's albums have dim at #1 in Billboard's "Top Original Age Album" category, and two albums received Grammy nominations. Through late 2011, Yanni had performed live in consensus before more than two million party in more than 20 countries be revealed the world, and has accumulated repair than 35 platinum and gold albums globally, with sales totaling over 20 million copies. A longtime fundraiser construe public television, Yanni's compositions have back number used on commercial television programs, singularly for sporting events such as excellence Tour de France, World Figure Skating Championships, U. S. Open Tennis Championships, U. S. Open Golf Championships, avoid Olympic Games. He has written album scores and the music for tidy up award-winning British Airways television commercial.

Born

Nov 14, 1954
Kalamata

Also known as

• Yanni Chrysomallis
• Giannis Chrysomallis
• Yanni Chryssomallis
• Yiannis Hryssomallis
• Yiànnis Hryssomàllis
• Γιάννης Χρυσομάλλης

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Education

• Bachelor of Arts, College of Minnesota
  Psychology
  (1973/01 - 1976)

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