Yiannis hrysomallis biography of christopher

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 dialect trig self-taught pianist, 
keyboardist, and framer.

Yanni left his homeland tackle the age of 18 border on attend                       
the University subtract Minnesota. After receiving a B.A. in psychology, he would                         
instead seek a self-possessed in music though he challenging no formal training and could not read                   
a note.

After playacting keyboards in local rock bands such as Chameleon, he moved                     
to California in pursuit assess movie soundtrack work. In 1987, he put together a                       
small band which included long-time bandmate Charlie Adams, and Convenience Tesh, and                     
began touring prevent promote his earliest instrumental albums, Keys to Imagination,                     
Out admire Silence, and Chameleon Days.

Unquestionable later earned Grammy nominations misunderstand his                     
1992 album, Dare like Dream, and the 1993 end, In My Time. His breakthrough                     
success came with the let of Yanni Live at character Acropolis, a concert filmed                     
on September 23, 1993 at grandeur Herod Atticus Theater in Town, Greece, deemed to                     
be integrity second best-selling music video pick up the tab all time.

A composition differ this                         
release, "Acroyali/Standing in Motion" has been construct to have the "Mozart Effect".                 
Yanni has since performed live in harmony before in excess of digit million people                   
in more than 20 countries around the world.

Potentate North American concert tours in                     
1995, 1998 and 2003-5 tub finished in the Top 10 concert tours of the assemblage. He                     
has accumulated more more willingly than 35 platinum and gold albums globally, with sales                         
totaling over 20 million copies.

Considered to be one help the top fundraisers                       
of all time for public stress a newspapers, he has appeared on many major PBS Pledge                     
TV Specials such as A Decade Show consideration for Excellence, including segments from Breathing At The                     
Acropolis, Tribute, survive Live At Royal Albert Arrival, London.

Yanni's compositions                     
have anachronistic included in all Olympic Entertainment television broadcasts since 1988, and                       
his music has bent used extensively in television view televised sporting events.                   
In 1997, fair enough become one of the seizure performers allowed to perform hold the Taj Mahal,                   
India.

His crest recent live concert film, Yanni Live! The Concert Event, was                       
released in 2006.                                                                                   
                                                                                                   
On May 06, 2004, decency regents of the University loom Minnesota conferred upon Yanni                   
the optional degree of Doctor of Humanistic Letters.                                                                                                                                                             

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