Yanni
Yanni
Yiannis Chryssomallis, known professionally as Yanni, is a Greek composer, keyboardist, pianist, and music producer who has spent his adult life in the United States...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth14 November 1954
CityKalamata, Greece
coming contact head love studio talk time
I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.
daughter love-is car
In the English language, I can love my car, or my house, or my daughter, or traveling, but in Greek and how I grew up, love is described with different words.
love cold hungry
Maybe we didn't have many possessions, but we never went hungry, were cold, or lacked love.
thinking love-is important
I think that love is very important and exists in many forms for all of us.
love powerful lifetime
Of all the forces that are exerted on us over our lifetime, at least for me, love has been the most powerful of all.
greek types-of-love
In Greek, we do not use just one word for love. We have many words that are specific to each type of love.
total
And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody's asleep, is just a total pleasure for me.
behind careful concerts environment fit music performance playing surrounds
When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
music
It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.
music
I do listen to a lot of music, but I don't listen when I'm writing.
athlete emotions grandiose helps involved pain pleasure sports
Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.
based melody music transform
My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.
hard music
With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.
You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.