User:Padarossi/Yannis Xanthopoulos

Giannis Xanthopoulos is a Greek singer. He becomes well known in public after his participation in the musical talent show Rising Star (Greece) where he was the winner. Was born at June of 2000 in Athens from Greek parents.

Bio
He was very young when he had his first contact with music.This event resulted in him enrolling and finishing Music High School. He is self-taught on the guitar and plays piano.

Before finishing General High School, at the age of 16, he participated in the music talent show Rising Star broadcast by ANT1 (Dec_2016 - Apr_2017) where he won the first (1st) place undefeated by breaking the world record in the first phase of the show process. From that moment, his professional path in the world of music and entertainment began.

In June of 2017 he released his first personal single titled  'Edo Pou Ftasame' which stayed into #Trends on Youtube for 1 whole month reaching 1,000,000 views on his (YouTube) channel in just a few days.

In 2018 he made his first appearance on a big muisic stage at the FEVER music hall in Athens together with Themis Adamantidis, Elli Kokkinou and Dimos Anastasiadis..

In October of 2018, he attended the opening ceremony of the "Chair of Russian Language and Culture" at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki as a guest of the "IVAN SAVVIDIS Charitable Foundation" as the main singer at the ceremony alongside the distinguished musician and pianist Mr.Thanasis Bililis.

He has collaborated with very famous artists of the Greek music in music formations in Greece and Cyprus. He was invited and participated in television shows-tributes for leading Greek musicians, creators and singers from a very young age.

This period he is single, animal-loving and active in every action that concerns human-being, the arts and the culture.