Kristi Stassinopoulou

Kristi Stassinopoulou
Background Information
Origin	Athens, Greece
Birth date	20 January 1956
Death date	N/A
Age	70
Eurovision Song Contest
Country	Greece
Year	1983
Song	Mou les
Semi Position	--
Semi Points	--
Final Position	14th
Final Points	32

Chrisavgi Stassinopoulou, better known as Kristi, is a Greek singer, actress, lyricist, and author.

She studied theater at Theatro Tehnis, Karolos Koun and at the theatre-school of Petros Katselis. When she was cast to play Mary Magdalene in the Greek production of Jesus Christ Superstar in 1978 while still a student, she began her professional music career. Five years later, Kristi represented Greece at the Eurovision Song Contest 1983 in Munich with the song Mou les, which placed 14th in the competition.

Despite this, along with getting cast as Evita that same year, Kristi released her self-titled debut album in 1986. In 1989 Stassinopoulou met multi-instrumentalist/songwriter Stathis Kalyviotis, member -among others- of the Anipofori (The Unbearables), one of the first Greek punk bands in the early 80s, the first to do their songs in Greek lyrics and not in English, as was the habit in the Greek indie-underground-rock scene of the times.

Together with Stathis Kalyviotis, drummer Vangelis Vekios and guitarist Kostis Anagnostopoulos they formed, Selana (sometimes cited as Selena), a band with an ethnopunk sound that never made an album, but became cult, often performing also as the support group of late Pavlos Sidiropoulos.^[1]

In 1997, Stassinopoulou and Kalyviotis produced their first album Ifantokosmos which was released by the independent label Thesis.^[5] Their next album, Echotropia, was released in 1999. It was distributed in Greece, N. America and Brasil and was the first Greek album to reach the Top 10 position in the World Music Charts Europe.

Kristi continues to perform across the globe, with influences from Greek music, punk, psychedelic rock, ambiance, and electronica. In addition, she published two books and provided the Greek voices for Ariel and Belle.