MARIOS FRAGOULIS TENOR
Biographie • Frangoulis was born on 18 December 1967 in Rhodesia (today Zimbabwe) of Greek parents.When he was four years old he was sent to Athens, Greece to live with his maternal aunt Loula and her husband George. The couple adored him so much and Mario considered them as his parents. At the age of eight Frangoulis began singing in various choirs and at the age of eleven he played the part of Issachar in a school production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat to follow by many different roles in several other school theatrical performances, including the Master of Ceremonies in Cabaret and at sixteen played Tony in West Side Story. Mario Frangoulis is a Greek tenor and is best known for his song, "Vincerò, Perderò". He sings in Italian, Spanish, English, French, and Greek; he is fluent in all five languages.
Carrer of 1995 • He started his carrer in 1995 and he ended in 2016.In 1995,Frangoulis returned to London to play the role of Lun-Tha in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I during the Covent Garden Festival. This highly acclaimed performance received great comments from a number of newspapers including the Times and The Guardian. He also sang the title role in the musical Yusupov in Oxford as well as Johnny in "Sail away" (Savoy theater in London).
Carrer of 1999 • In the spring of 1999 he made his first solo show at the Ieura Odos Music
Hall[7] with songs from all over the world, with the participation of Deborah Meyers.They were an overnight sensation, and these appearances were followed by a hugely successful concert tour in Greece and Cyprus the following summer, playing in various venues of 2.000 – 10.000 audience. His first solo album "Fengari erotevmeno" ("Love strucken moon"), a live recording of the show, a double CD by Sony, Greece (with kind permission of Sony Classical), was an immediate best-seller, thus winning him his second platinum album (both in Greece and Cyprus) in two year.
Carrer of 2006 • His second successful tour in The United States and later international with a number of solo concerts: • 7 January – Solo concert in honor of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in Tampa, Florida at the Sun Dome, with the • • • • • • • • • •
Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra[20] and the Archdiocesan Metropolitan Youth Choir. 6 & 7 April – Horatio Alger Award Ceremony Washington, DC 10 June – Fundraising Gala Event – Sharon Wilson Center, Brookefield, Wisconsin 9 April – Cincinnati, Ohio – Yellow Ribbon Scholarship Fundraising Event 6 May – Solo concert at the Detroit Opera House in Detroit, Michigan 16 June – Solo Concert – Sanders Theater – sponsored by the Greek Institute at Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 24–28 June Greek Concert tour (Piraeus, Athens, Thessaloniki etc.) 30 June – Private Gala Event – Baalbek, Lebanon International Music Festival's 50 years anniversary 2 July, his second concert in Turkey, at the Harbiye outdoor theater in Istanbul October: at the Herodes Atticus theater, "Tribute to Mario Lanza" concert. October: debut Concert in Chicago with the Chicago Symphony at Orchestra Hall and at the Landmark Theater in Richmond with the Richmond Symphony.
His career • In 2016 he recorded a duets album in Greek with Greek singer George Perris titled "Kivotos" which included covers of popular Greek art songs from the 80s and 90s. The album peaked to #3 in the Greek Album Charts.
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WIKIPEDIA DISCOGS.COM. AGGELIKI Class: E1 Ralleia Experimental Primary Schools School year: 2017-18