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Maria Katinari (Greek: Μαρία Κατινάρη) was born in Chania on Crete as the oldest daughter of Antonios Katinaris. She is a Greek actress, singer and lyricist. Early years Due to her father being a well-known, very successful composer and a highly gifted Bouzouki-soloist and her mother Maria Rippi being a singer from a musical family, Katinari got early stage experience. In a short phase of her juvenile rebellion against the rembetiko tradition of the family, she joined a rock music group at the age of 13. At 16, she began to travel during school-holidays as a singer through Europe. She performed live at clubs in the Netherlands, England and Germany. In Paris she studied kinesology and dance, whereby she financed her studies and living costs with her music. Back in Athens, she took acting classes, studied classical and jazz dance. After some success as an actress on Athens’ stages, her restless soul drove her to Cairo, where she studied classical and traditional Arab music and succeeded also interpreting Arab music. Musical work Maria Katinari is particularly well-known in Greece for her live concerts and television appearances. Their discography is limited so far to three personal albums. Beyond them she took part in successful music productions. In 2006, she announced a new album with recompilations of Antonios Katinaris’ well-known songs. She has worked on Greek Live music stages with well-known Greek artists like Stratos Dionisiou, Georgios Zampetas, Dimitris Mitropanos, Giannis Parios, Panos Gavalas, Poly Panou, Keti Grey, Rita Sakelariou, Anna Vissi, Bambis Goles, Georgios Ksintaris, Bambis Tsertos, Antonis Repanis and others. With the musical direction of Vasilis Dimitriou and the National Orchestra of Greek Music by Stavros Xarhakos; she also took a successful concert journey through Greece. She worked on several extremely successful music productions well-known Greek artists with hits. Her success CD appeared in the label M.B.I. "If I a would be a male" (Greek "Αν ημουν αντρας") deals with the deliberated women of the time between world wars in music apart. The increasing influence of the women on the society, in combination with the influence of Minor Asia’s refugees is told with a contemporary Rembetiko music journey. External links
Rebetiko Rita Abatzi | Grigorios Asikis | Giorgos Batis | Sotiria Bellou | Manolis Chiotis | Loukas Daralas | Roza Eskenazi | Michalis Genitsaris | Manos Hadjidakis | Antonios Katinaris | Maria Katinari | Apostolos Nikolaidis | Marika Ninou | Marika Papagika | Stelios Perpiniadis | Kostas Roukounas | Iovan Tsaous | Vasilis Tsitsanis | Kostas Skarvelis | Markos Vamvakaris Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/"
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