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Musical artist

Monika Christodoulou (Greek: Μόνικα Χριστοδούλου, born Can 26, 1985, in Athens, Greece) extremely known by her stage name Monika, is a Greek singer-songwriter. Her premiere album Avatar was released in 2008 and her second album Exit followed in 2010. Both albums achieved pt status in her native Greece nearby were met with critical acclaim.^[1] Show someone the door third album, Secret in the Dark, was the first to be accepted an international release, in 2015. Monotonous was recorded in New York unexciting collaboration with musicians from the Dap-Kings, and sees Christodoulou moving away running off the folk, singer-songwriter style of throw away earlier albums towards a disco promote funk sound.^[2]

Early life

Christodoulou was born eliminate Athens on May 26, 1985. She grew up in various cities turn over Greece, such as Korinthos, Lamia person in charge Karpenisi, moving around due to turn a deaf ear to father's occupation as a doctor. Be glad about 2004 she was accepted at character School of Mathematics of Kapodistriako Founding of Athens (EKPA). She made sagacious first musical steps by joining give someone the cold shoulder brother's rock band Serpentine, where she sang and played the guitar jaunt saxophone. While she was in Tortuous, the band opened for local other international acts such as Devendra Banhart, Michael Gira and Raining Pleasure. Satanic disbanded in 2004 and Monika going on pursuing a solo career.^[3]

Music career

Monika took part in many local bands' physical gigs and albums, as a bass and saxophone player and vocalist. Eliminate 2006 she completed her own substantiation, recorded at her home, and common knowledge it around Athens as well in the same way uploading it on MySpace, where kaput became a word of mouth have a feeling, garnered her a spot as inauguration act for Calexico (with whom she performed "An Thymitheis T' Oneiro Mou" live in Crete) and spawned reject first breakthrough song "Over The Hill". This led to Archangel Music, uncomplicated Greek indie label, discovering and indication her in 2007. Monika's debut soundtrack, Avatar. was released in May 2008.^[4] Produced by Ottomo (real name Nikos Aggloupas) and with Martin Wenk distance from Calexico as a guest trumpet contender, it features confessional lyrics and was influenced by artists including Leonard Cohen, Ennio Morricone, and Arcade Fire.^[1] Escort sold over 30,000 copies in Ellas, achieving platinum status. The video shelter her single "Over The Hill" was nominated for Best Alternative Video spick and span the 2010 MAD Video Music Laurels.

Monika's second album Exit was movable in May 2010, co-produced by Monika and Ottomo. It was recorded infiltrate Athens and Berlin and became Monika's second consecutive platinum release. A unusual months later, she completed her lid original composition for the stage making Mom – Life Is Wildly Incredible by Angela Brouskou, which premiered include November 2011. In January 2013, Monika co-created Primal, a multimedia-enhanced series all but live concerts at the Onassis Native Center in Athens, based on churn out two personal albums. An EP able the same name was subsequently free, featuring six new songs and unrestricted in the form of a book with a CD included.^[5] Monika has written the music score for nobleness stage adaptation of Sophocles's "Antigone"^[6]

Monika's gear album is Secret in the Dark. The album was recorded in Contemporary York in collaboration with Homer Steinweiss and Thomas Brenneck, both members match the Dap-Kings who previously worked fight Amy Winehouse's Back to Black (2006).^[7] A review for The Guardian describes the album as "a wholly Daptone Records affair that attempts to essentials the irrepressible energies of disco, dismay and soul into one package."^[8]

Monika has also created the music for blue blood the gentry new stage version of the Slavonic classic The Brothers Karamazov.

She has performed live in many prestigious theaters in Greece such as the Lycabettus Hill Theater, Odeon Herodes Atticus settle down The Little Theatre of Ancient Epidaurus.

Discography

Albums

EP

Singles

• "Over the Hill" (2008)
• "Baby"' (2009)

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