Fotini Velesiotou is a Greek singer who started with rebetiko singing but has now established herself as a versatile performer of art song as well. She was born in Karditsa on October 4, 1958, and in 1976 she moved to Thessaloniki to study. There, she discovered the world of rebetiko. She received her degree from the Pedagogical Academy of Thessaloniki and was then appointed as a teacher in primary education, where she remained for over twenty years. Today she has retired from her teaching duties and has thus committed fully to her second passion, outside the classroom: singing.
Produced and presented by Hercules Economou