Maria Katinari

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Maria Katinari (greek Μαρία Κατινάρη) was born in Chania on Crete as the oldest daughter of Antonios Katinaris . She is a Greek Actress, Singer and Songtexter.

[edit] Early years

Due to her father, Antonios Katinaris a well-known, very successful composer and a highly gifted Bouzouki-soloist and her mother Maria Rippi, likewise a singer from a musician family Maria Katinari got early her first stage experiences. In a short phase of her juvenile rebellion against the tradition of the family she joined straight thirteen years old as a singer a rockmusic group. With 16 she began to travel first during the school-holidays as a singer through Europe. She performed within Live clubs in the Netherlands, England and Germany. In Paris she studied kinesology and dance, whereby she financed her studies and living costs with her music. Back in Athens she visited actor’s classes, classical dance and jazz dance. After some successes as an actress on Athens’ stages her restless soul drove her to Cairo, where she studied over three years classical and traditional Arab music and succeeded also interpreting Arab music.

[edit] Actual work

Maria Katinari is particularly well-known in Greece for her live concerts and television appearances. Their discography is limited so far to three personal albums. Beyond them she took part in successful music productions. Recently she announced a new album with recompilations of Antonios Katinaris’ well-known songs. She worked on Greek Livemusic-stages with well-known greek artists like Stratos Dionisiou, Georgios Zampetas, Dimitris Mitropanos, Giannis Parios, Panos Gavalas, Poly Panou, Keti Grey, Rita Sakelariou, Anna Vissi, Bambis Goles, Georgios Ksintaris, Bambis Tsertos, Antonis Repanis and others. With the musical direction of Vasilis Dimitriou and the National Orchestra of Greek Music by Stavros Harhakos she also took a successful concert journey through Greece. She worked on several extremely successful music productions well-known Greek artists with ahits. Her success CD appeared in the label M.B.I. "If I a would be a male" (Greek "Αν ημουν αντρας") deals with the deliberated women of the time between world wars in music apart. The increasing influence of the women on the society, in combination with the influence of Minor Asia’s refugees is told with an contemporary Rembetiko music journey.