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The daughter of legendary Kojak

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[:el] Ariana Savalas is a jazz vocalist, songwriter and actress. She’s the daughter of famous and awarded actor Telly Savalas and Julie Savalas. Her father’s origins are from Gerakas of Lakonia. Like her brother Christos, Ariana was baptized Christian Orthodox at the St. Sophia Church....

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A pianist touring with his music around the world’s remote countries

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[:el] Panos Karan was born in 1982 in Crete and grew up in Athens. At the early age of 7, he started receiving piano lessons and had excelled among his fellow students. He was later educated at the Royal Academy of Music. Karan made his...

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The glow of Hollywood in Apikia of Andros

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Until recently, Ted and Eugenie Bafaloukos had their promising careers in Hollywood. However, following a free decision of the moment, the couple decided to put their careers on hold to relocate to the island of Andros, where they resumed doing creative work. Eugenie Bafaloukos is...

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From Yiannitsa to the American Ballet Theater

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Alexandra Avramis’s origins are from Yiannitsa in Pella and she has successfully managed to be selected by the internationally prestigious group of classical ballet, the American Ballet Theater, among thousands of dancers from all over the world. “It was beyond my imagination, a life’s dream...

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A young composer conquers the world at 24

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Young composer Ioannis Angelakis is the First Prize Winner of the 2012 International Composition Competition at Tokyo, Japan. Despite his young age, Ioannis has also ranked among the first in two other international competitions in Prague and Sofia. Born in 1988, Angelakis graduated the School...

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On the list with the world’s most powerful celebrities

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[:el] Jennifer Aniston is a well-known actor all over the world. She started her career with the TV series Friends and now she stars in major Hollywood productions. Jennifer Aniston was born on February 11, 1969 in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles. Her Greek full name...

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“Avatar” with a sense of Greece

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While «Avatar», the movie, is still «breaking» one record after another, in Box Office, few are those who know that behind the dream world «erected» by James Cameron is the Greek’s origin executive producer and screenwriter Laeta Kalogridis, a woman, who is characterized by many...

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The pioneer of neon

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[:el] Stephen Antonakos was born in 1926 in Saint Nikolaos of Lakonia and by 1930 his family relocated to New York, where he lived and worked. He died in New York City aged 87 on August 17th, 2013. Since the ‘60s, Antonakos has been distinguished for...

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From mathematics to fiction, to arts and to Logicomix

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Greek writer and director, Apostolos Doxiadis was born in Brisbane Australia in 1953 and grew up in Greece. Despite his initial interest in the novel and the arts, early in his life, «a sudden sensual attraction to maths» –as he says – led him to...

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The charmer of the keys

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He has won international recognition as an extremely gifted artist, classical pianist, a performer of music of the 19th and 20th centuries. He is also being recognized for his skills in synthesis, and for his improvisations. Vasilis Tsampropoulos was characterized as a child – miracle,...

The daughter of legendary Kojak

A pianist touring with his music around the world’s remote countries

The glow of Hollywood in Apikia of Andros

From Yiannitsa to the American Ballet Theater

A young composer conquers the world at 24

On the list with the world’s most powerful celebrities

“Avatar” with a sense of Greece

The pioneer of neon

From mathematics to fiction, to arts and to Logicomix

The charmer of the keys

The Greek-American costume designer with an Oscar Nomination

Τhe main expressionist of modern lyric poetry

Mimis Fotopoulos – The Popular Philosopher of Greek Theatre

Nikos Engonopoulos – The Greek Surrealist Who United Dream and Greekness

Spyros Evangelatos – The visionary director and academic who devoted his life...

The woman who made history

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