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Artist
Eleni Violaris
12+ albums
about
Eleni Violaris was born in London to a family of professional musicians. Her father is of Greek heritage and her mother, Welsh. Eleni, who sings and plays the piano, flute and guitar, has been making music and taking part in professional recordings since she was five years old. As a youngster, Eleni recorded children’s solo and chorus parts on a double CD recording of a contemporary music drama/opera entitled, ‘El Cid’, written and composed by her father (Andonis Violaris) in discussion with Placido Domingo. Andonis also wrote, composed and produced songs for the “60-million” album-selling artist, Demis Roussos. At 12 years of age, Eleni, together with her younger brother Adam Violaris (a music prodigy), performed and sang to a special delegation from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Geneva. This resulted in a commission to record a single and music video entitled, ‘Children for the World - Call You Now’, to help support UNEP’s outreach programme during the ‘Year of the Mountains’ in 2002. Eleni’s stand-out solo vocal performance on the single, attracted the attention of record label executives at Sony Music and Polydor. Eleni is also an actress and classical ballet dancer, who considered a dancing career after being talent scouted for the Royal Academy of Dance but decided on a professional music career instead. Eleni went straight from college to singing, composing and writing songs (words and music) for major BBC arts programmes, including the 12-part
