So many influences! I grew up with Greek, Latin and Folk/Ethnic music. I love Arabic and Latin music, from Salsa to Brazilian Jazz & Funk. I'm a huge fan of dance music, trance, garage and drum and base. Today I like lots of singers and bands from around the world, such as Alanis Morissette, Pendulum, Daft Punk, The Darkness, Keiser Chiefs, Breed 77, Christina Aguilera, Cesaria Evora, Celia Cruz, Shakira, Manu Chao, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Stefanos Korkolis, Ozlem Tekin, Sertab Erener, Gispy Kings and many others. In my music I like to blend different styles, such as rock combined with folk elements. There's something really powerful in both styles, and they sound amazing together!
Elena was born in Limassol, Cyprus and started playing the piano when she was four. She has a degree in music from Royal Holloway University of London, specializing in performance and composition, as well as a Diploma of Acting from Vladimiros Kafkarides School of Drama in Cyprus.
Her performances include the opera Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart) by the Cyprus Opera and the orchestra of Okinawa University of Arts from Japan. She was soloist in a piano recital in Bordeaux (France) where she performed music from around the world. In the UK Elena recorded an album and several singles with the pop-opera band MILAN (www.milan4.com). With Milan she toured around the UK performing with the Irish tenor Peter Corry and sung live on Children in Need (BBC South West, 2004).
Elena has worked as solo artist with various producers and DJs and featured in a couple of music videos. She recorded vocals for several albums such as Forever (John Michael Tsiros), Eurasia (Dimitri) and singles (Darkness, Beautiful, Live the moment etc). She spent six weeks at Number One in Cyprus (2005), was awarded by the British Forces radio (BFBS) for the song Para Siempre and received an international award for the song Darkness at the ISC competition in the US (music/lyrics by John Michael Tsiros).
As an actress Elena toured in Europe with the Cyprus National Theatre, worked as third assistant director with Cranberry Films (London) and acted in a couple of short films.
At the moment Elena teaches, DJs in Bristol and writes her own music.
Hola Eli! How are you? Thanks for your comments on the website and here, I wish we could sing together again! le me know when you r back from Cryprus. Besos, Graciela.
HELLO PRECIOUS ELENA. THANKS FOR THE ADD. YOU ARE A STAR FULL SHINE OF FEELING AND VERY BEAUTIFUL. THANKS FOR BEING WITH YOUR MAGIC PRESENCE IN MY SPACE, KISSES
Hola,,,, Well Elena,I'd love to be a model But I can't...I'm a model in my fantasy world, In real life I'm a engineer.....Congrats on ur new plans ahead.....
Hallo Elena Thank you for your friendship, your comment and for placing me to your top friends!! It’s really a pleasure to have as my friend a talented girl like you!!! I wish all the best to your efforts!! Take care!!
Available on Rhapsody, Amazon, Trackitdown etc. in mp3 format and on Juno in wav/mp3 format. By the september 15th it should be available in all major digital stores including our website.
Is good to finally ‘meet’ the voice featured in Darkness, I remember listening to the song when it first came out and wondering who the girl with the beautiful voice was