Marina Satti

A classical piano and advanced music theory graduate with a diploma in classical singing and acting, as well as a scholar of the internationally renowned Berklee College of Music, where she studied orchestration, production, and jazz alongside Danilo Pérez and Jamey Haddad, among others, Marina Satti has forged a personal sound that brings together the musical traditions she grew up with, such as Greek, Arabic, and Balkan. Having represented Greece in the European Jazz Orchestra (EBU) with works by Peter Herbolzheimer, while also singing at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington with the World Jazz Nonet and participating in the a cappella vocal group The Singing Tribe in collaboration with Bobby McFerrin, she is a creator and performer that defies classification. From Megaron—The Athens Concert Hall and the Greek National Opera to traditional feasts in the highlands of Crete, she can simultaneously embrace pop, ethnic, and mainstream, just as she can be lyrical, urban, and traditional with the same ease. The European media present her as an ambassador of the Greek and Balkan scenes, carving a distinctive path that marries traditional music with pop, both classical and contemporary.

In 2017, she reached the top of the charts with the single "ΜΑΝΤΙΣΣΑ," while briefly afterward the audiences welcomed the song "PONOS KRIFOS," which premiered on the German music platform Colors (marking the first time a Greek artist appears on the platform with a Greek-lyric song) and achieved another first place on the NOWNESS platform that first presented her excellent video clip for the traditional song “GIATI POULI MOU.” In 2017, she also founded CHÓRES [ˈkɔɾɛs], an all-female choral ensemble consisting of more than 150 women aged between 15 and 60, of which she maintains artistic direction—an artistic nursery that aims to safeguard, process, and promote the wealth of Greek tradition but also yield original musical repertoire and performance activities in collaboration with contemporary artists while reviving the traditional songs of yesterday with the sound and aesthetics of today in a unique way. In May 2022, she released her first full-length personal album, “YENNA,” while in 2023, she delved into experimentation with the delivery of the short documentary “FLABOURO” and “TUCUTUM,” a song-cum-commentary on Balkan trap that became the predominant summer viral.