Eleonora Kouneni

I've been singing since I can remember, albeit not in front of people. I remember sneaking out in the balcony with a cassette voice recording at the age of around 10, singing along with Celine Dion trying to nail the melody of My Heart Will Go On. I didn't get a chance to sing solo in front of a crowd until the last year of secondary school, in a school performance. I had never experience such utter freedom and happiness till then. That's when I realised that I was made to perform. Things just went from there. I formed a band in high school and we put on gigs at our and other schools, until I eventually started writing my own music and gigged around Athens as a singer-songwriter (putting my 10 years of guitar lessons in good use). I have since been part of various pop/rock/funk bands and duos. When I moved to London and started exploring the music scene, I fell in love with jazz. I was already a jazz listener but had not considered performing it. I was lucky to encounter an incredibly vibrant and buzzing jazz scene, with amazing musicians always taking the genre one step further, constantly creating. I let jazz teach me, inspire me, take over me; and I can never go back.