Yanni

About Yanni

Self-taught New Age keyboardist known for combining jazz, classical, soft rock, and world music in his musical shorthand. More than a dozen of his albums have debuted at the top of Billboard's Top New Age Album chart.

Yiannis Chryssomallis, known by his stage name Yanni, is a Greek-American composer, keyboardist, pianist, and music producer. Yanni continues to use the musical shorthand he developed as a child, mixing jazz, classical, soft rock, and world music to create pieces that are primarily musical instruments. Although this kind of music is not suitable for commercial radio and music television, Yanni has received international recognition for hosting concerts in historic sites and producing videos on public television. His groundbreaking concert, Live at the Acropolis, won the second best-selling concert video of all time.

Genres	Contemporary instrumental, instrumental crossover, world, new-age
Associated acts	Chameleon, Shahrdad Rohani
Born	November 14, 1954, Kalamata, Greece
Years active	1980–present
Labels	Private Music/Windham Hill/BMG, Virgin/EMI, Image Entertainment, Yanni Wake/Disney Pearl Series
Native name	Γιάννης Χρυσομάλλης
Birth name	Yiannis Chryssomallis
Instruments	Piano, keyboards

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Trivia

His music was commonly referred to as New Age, but he preferred for it to be called contemporary instrumental.

Yanni before fame

He set a Greek national record in the 50-meter freestyle swim when he was 14 years old."Optimystique", his debut studio album, was released in 1984."Keys to Imagination" was released in 1986.

Achievement of Yanni

His music was frequently referred to as"New Age", but he preferred the term"contemporary instrumental".

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

$50 Million

Yanni family life

H was given the name Yiannis Chryssomallis when he was born. He was in a relationship with actress Linda Evans from 1989 till 1998.

Associations of Yanni

He had drummer Charlie Adams and pianist and singer John Tesh in his band in the 1980s.

Yanni Height, Weight & Physique Measurements

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Height	180 cm
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