Korina Legaki

Korina Legaki was born in Herakleion, Crete, of Greek-Swedish origin. She trained in classical and jazz singing, piano and orthophony, and participated in Spyros Sakkas’s Vocal Art Workshop. A multilingual and multicultural persona, she has recorded four solo records with original material as well as covers of Greek and foreign composers. She has recorded and performed with musicians, composers, singers and ensembles across several genres from free jazz to traditional and from academic to ethnic. She has sung in theaters, concert halls and various venues throughout Greece and abroad, including the Athens Concert Hall, the Zappeion, the temple of Poseidon in Sounio, the Anglican Church of St. Paul’s and the European Parliament. At the same time, she has undertaken significant volunteering work, joining forces on stage and in studios with refugee children.

As of April 2019, she is recording her next solo album with music by composers Nikos Xydakis and Giorgos Andreou and lyrics by poets Kiki Dimoula, Manos Eleftheriou, Dionysis Kapsalis, Thodoris Gonis et.al. She is also the main performer of composer Giorgos Andreou’s next work, which puts to music some important contemporary and classical poetry and prose. On July 10, 2019 she performed alongside Maria Farantouri in the Odeon of Herod Atticus as part of the Athens-Epidaurus Festival.

2015: MOSAIC – covers of important, though lesser known, gems of Greek and international music from the 50s to the present day. Music by Stamatis Kraounakis, Nikos Xydakis, Giorgos Andreou, Giorgos Kazantzis, Manolis Hiotis, Christos Nikolopoulos et. al. Lyrics by Mihalis Ganas, Lina Nikolakopoulou, Thodoris Gonis, Manolis Rasoulis, Odysseas Ioannou et. al. Production-arrangement-supervision: Giorgos Andreou.

2014: KYMATOGRAPHOS – twelve cinema songs by Eden Abhez, Antônio Pinto, Mikis Theodorakis, Eleni Karaindrou, Astor Piazzolla, Nicola Piovani, Zbigniew Preisner et.al. in collaboration with guitar virtuoso Panagiotis Margaris.

2012: ΤΑΓΚΟ ΓΙΑ ΤΡΕΙΣ [TANGO FOR THREE] – music by Dimitris Maramis, lyrics by Mihalis Ganas, K.G. Karyotakis and Maria Polydouri.

2010: ΧΟΡΟΣ ΜΕ ΤΗ ΒΡΟΧΗ [A DANCE WITH THE RAIN] – music by Armos, Dimitris Maramis, Stergios Gargalas; lyrics by Kostas Bournazakis, Sotiris Trivizas et.al.

February 2019: Athens Concert Hall, National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation 50th Anniversary Concert.

December 2018: Christmas themed concert in St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Athens, together with refugee children.

November 2018: World cinema-themed concert in the European Parliament in Brussels; invited by MEP Giorgos Grammatikakis.

Summer 2018: Concerts with Giorgos Andreou in the emblematic Temple of Poseidon in Sounio and the Zappeion in Athens.

Spring 2017: Tour throughout Greece with composers Giorgos Andreou and Giorgos Kazantzis until summer 2018. Venues such as: Polis Stage, Thessaloniki Concert Hall etc.

Winter 2017: Karolou Diehl and Tsimiski. Music by Giorgos Andreou, Lyrics and Book by Thodoris Gonis. Sings alongside Eleni Tsaligopoulou, Giota Nega and Eleni Kokkidou in Athens and on tour.

Winter 2016-17: Presentation concerts of her record Mosaic with her own band in the Athenaeum Cellar and on tour.

Winter 2016: Interprets Logbook III, with music by Giorgos Andreou on the poetry collection of the same name by Nobel Prize Laureate Giorgos Seferis (59th International Philippi Festival).

Winter 2015-16: Main singer in the joint appearance of Nikos Xydakis and Giorgos Andreou in Athens (Tzeni Karezi Theatre) and on tour.

Summer 2015: Tours Greece and Cyprus with Giorgos Andreou, TaniaTsanaklidou and Rita Antonopoulou.