Yanni
Yanni
Yiannis Chryssomallis, known professionally as Yanni, is a Greek composer, keyboardist, pianist, and music producer who has spent his adult life in the United States...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth14 November 1954
CityKalamata, Greece
people different culture
I have been fortunate to have a career that has allowed me to travel the world and come in contact with many different cultures and people.
daughter love-is car
In the English language, I can love my car, or my house, or my daughter, or traveling, but in Greek and how I grew up, love is described with different words.
greek types-of-love
In Greek, we do not use just one word for love. We have many words that are specific to each type of love.
tolerate manage
We need to learn how to love each other. If we cannot do that, then we need to learn to respect one another. If we can't manage to do that, then we must learn to tolerate each other.
inspire everyday insightful
If you leave yourself open to learning, then you can benefit and enjoy an incredibly rewarding and insightful experience. These experiences are the driving force in my life, and they keep me alive and inspire not only my music but also my everyday life.
daughter important my-daughter
The love I have for my daughter is completely unconditional, and it is the most important love in my life.
people mind earth
There are so many messages and lessons that I have been taught that I would want to share with people. Perhaps one that is very present in my mind now is the concept that we are all living on this one tiny planet that we call Earth. It is very small and is not getting any bigger, but the amount of people living on this planet continues to grow at a rapid rate.
people important reason
Continuing to create music and perform is so important to me for many reasons. I love the interaction and connection I get with people when we perform live. Nothing is more rewarding for me.
people creative vision
The studio work that I do allows me to connect with people around the world. You can't perform live for everyone, so having the ability to share my creative vision with others is very important to me as well.
humanity mind capacity
Everything great that has ever happened to humanity has begun as a single thought in someone's mind, and if anyone of us is capable of such a thought, then all of us has the same capacity, capability, because we're all the same.
understanding listening use
As I understand life at different levels, I can use music to express what these levels feel like to me. Hopefully the listener can be transported to this understanding by listening to the music.
knowing-who-you-are house bigs
Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.
optimism creative mind
You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves.
moments
I’ve always lived in the moment.