Waterpipes (band)

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Waterpipes is a Greek based acoustic rock-folk band. Waterpipes consists of two members: Dennis Paraschis (guitars and vocals) and Marcel Ringa (vocals, guitar and harmonica). They are signed to Impact records, and put out their first major label album selftitled on January 15th 2008.

Waterpipes

[edit] Biography

Dennis Paraschis (February 18, 1984) was born and raised on the Greek island of Zakynthos but moved to the city of Athens when seven years old. Marcel Ringa (February 15, 1977) was born and raised in the Netherlands and is currently living in Athens, Greece. After running into each other in a language school, Marcel and Dennis soon discovered their mutual love for songwriting, instruments and music in general. After regular jamming and performing on the streets, hills, parties and bars around Athens, the two decided to give it a name and record some of their songs. Waterpipes was born and the result was a four song demo cd. This demo cd was soon heard by several people in the music industry and soon Waterpipes was invited to play on the Greek music television. Around that same time they were approached by DJ Johnny Kouloukakos from a major radiostation, who decided to produce Waterpipes’ first full album. After the album was recorded Waterpipes signed up with Impact records. Their first selftitled album was released on January 15th, 2008. ^[1]

Waterpipes' song ’water flows’, was released on a compilation cd for EMI-records called "album of the week" in May, 2007.