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Yanni was born November 14, 1954, in Kalamata, Greece. He is a great composer, keyboardist, pianist, and music producer.
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His early life and music career
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He began to play piano as early as six and his parents allowed him to progress at his own pace.
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He played in the band, ‘Chameleon’, with drummer Charlie Adams, whom he would later go on to work with.
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Yanni became one of the few Western artists permitted to perform and record at the Taj Mahal in India.
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Yanni formed a band and began to tour in 1988 with an ensemble including pianist/singer John Tesh and drummer Charlie Adams, promoting his early album Keys to Imagination.
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Dare to Dream, released in 1992, was Yanni’s first Grammy-nominated album. It included "Aria," a song based on Léo Delibes' The Flower Duet
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It was filmed in September 1993 at the 2,000-year-old Herodes Atticus Theater at the Acropolis of Athens. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orUKjb-0I1U&list=PLkuDqbQGzeKfpsJxizoOwOZWUfkgj8UCG
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Yanni was honored with an honorary doctoral degree in human letters from the University of Minnesota. Margaret Carlson said, "When we started to think about somebody who really symbolized how the University of Minnesota shaped their life and transformed their life and they went on to change the world, Yanni seemed to be the person."
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Yanni performed in China in the February 9, 2013, CCTV Spring Festival Gala (annual audience 700 million) with Chinese zither artist Chang Jing in what was the first year that CCTV had invited foreign artists to perform.
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On September 5, the world renowned Greek-American musician Yiannis Chryssomallis, popularly known as Yanni, announced on his official Facebook and Twitter accounts that he will be performing along with his phenomenal orchestra for the first time ever in Egypt by the Giza Pyramids on October 30.
https://thinkmarketingmagazine.com/yanni-promote-egypt-thisisegypt/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l-lBaP1GzM
