Yanni

Yanni is one of the most popular modern composers of instrumental music, with huge clusters of fans across North America, Europe, China, Russia and the Middle East. His most famous work is Live At The Acropolis, a 1994 performance that in America alone sold over 4 million copies as an album and over 500,000 on home video.

Yanni is a completely self-taught musician. Hard though it is to believe, he cannot read or write music. He composes his pieces in a shorthand form of his own devising.

As a teenager he was a member of the Greek National Swimming Team and dreamed of being an Olympic swimmer.