Artemis Gounaki (
Greek
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**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
Άρτεμις Γουνάκη; born 7 April 1967 in
Munich
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) is a Greek-German singer,
vocal coach
A vocal coach, also known as a voice coach (though this term often applies to those working with speech and communication rather than singing), is a music teacher, usually a piano accompanist, who helps singers prepare for a performance, often al ...
, songwriter, composer, and arranger who has done much of her work in Greek. Gounaki's father was born on the Greek island of
Crete
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.
Artemis Gounaki is a vocal coach and has participated in various
Popstars
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seasons in German, Greek and Swiss television such as on
RTL II
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and
ProSieben
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It was launched on 1 January 1989. It is Germany's second-largest privately owned television company ...
. Being a vocal-producer and arranger, Gounaki has worked with well-known German bands such as
Bro'Sis
Bro'Sis was a multicultural R&B/ pop group from Germany, which was formed through the TV series '' Popstars – Du bist mein Traum'' in 2001. The group comprised the singers Ross Antony, Hila Bronstein, Shaham Joyce, Faiz Mangat, Indira Weis, ...
,
Preluders
The Preluders were a pop girl group from Germany. The original group comprised singers Tertia Botha, Miriam Cani, Anh-Thu Doan, Rebecca Miro, and Anne Ross. Created through the ProSieben talent show '' Popstars – Das Duell'' (2003), in which ...
,
Nu Pagadi
Nu Pagadi was a German pop band, formed in December 2004 on the fourth season of international reality television program '' Popstars''. Originally a quartet, from May 2005 a trio, the group described their own musical style as "glam rock". In ...
,
Overground,
H-Blockx
H-Blockx is a German rock band founded in Münster in 1991. After the success of their debut album in 1994, ''Time to Move'', the band received a nomination for Best Breakthrough Artist at the 1995 MTV Europe Music Awards. In 1999, the World Wr ...
and
Guano Apes
Guano Apes are a German rock band formed in 1994 in Göttingen. The band consists of Sandra Nasić (vocals), Henning Rümenapp (guitars, backing vocals), Stefan Ude (bass, backing vocals), and Dennis Poschwatta (drums, backing vocals).
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). Many of the bands have already reached gold and platinum status in Germany. Gounaki also supports the finalists and winners of Popstars in Switzerland and Greece.
Moreover, she was singing, writing and composing for her band Illegal Aliens with
Marco Minnemann
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Career
Marco Minnemann has released over a dozen solo albums as drummer, multi-instrumentalist, and vocalist, and performed on over 100 studio alb ...
, who is her former husband.
She lives in Munich, (Germany), Athens, Greece, Zurich, Switzerland, and in Crete. She has one son.
Career
Gounaki had worked with many artists even before her Popstars debut. She worked with Henning Wehland on his voice for his bands' recordings ''Fly Eyes'' of his band
H-Blockx
H-Blockx is a German rock band founded in Münster in 1991. After the success of their debut album in 1994, ''Time to Move'', the band received a nomination for Best Breakthrough Artist at the 1995 MTV Europe Music Awards. In 1999, the World Wr ...
. After that Gounaki coached, arranged and produced the vocals of
Sandra Nasic
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* Sandra (given name)
* Sandra (singer) (born 1962), German pop singer
* Margaretha Sandra (1629–1674), Dutch soldier
* Sandra (orangutan), who won the legal right to be defined as a "non-human person"
...
, singer of the band
Guano Apes
Guano Apes are a German rock band formed in 1994 in Göttingen. The band consists of Sandra Nasić (vocals), Henning Rümenapp (guitars, backing vocals), Stefan Ude (bass, backing vocals), and Dennis Poschwatta (drums, backing vocals).
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for ''Don't Give Me Names'' and ''Walking on a Thin Line'' and was their steady tour coach and friend during their worldwide tours ( 1998–2002).
In 2001, Gounaki became the vocal coach of the German TV show
Popstars
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Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents purportedly unscripted real-life situations, often starring unfamiliar people rather than professional actors. Realit ...
. Her work helped the winning band
Bro'Sis
Bro'Sis was a multicultural R&B/ pop group from Germany, which was formed through the TV series '' Popstars – Du bist mein Traum'' in 2001. The group comprised the singers Ross Antony, Hila Bronstein, Shaham Joyce, Faiz Mangat, Indira Weis, ...
selling over 1,500,000 copies of their debut album ''Never Forget'' within three days. Later, she extended her work to different countries. In 2003, she moved to
Athens
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to become the vocal coach of the Greek version of Popstars and to work on the vocal-production of the winning band
Hi-5.
During that time, she also worked on the German Popstars show, which took place in
Orlando, Florida
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US and created the two bands
Preluders
The Preluders were a pop girl group from Germany. The original group comprised singers Tertia Botha, Miriam Cani, Anh-Thu Doan, Rebecca Miro, and Anne Ross. Created through the ProSieben talent show '' Popstars – Das Duell'' (2003), in which ...
and
Overground. After finishing that production, Gounaki went to Greece to arrange and to produce the Christmas CD of Hi-5, ''Mia Nihta San K'iafti''.
After this, Gounaki was one of the judges on the Greek TV Show ''Eurostars''. The show was won by Apostolos Psihraimis who was supposed to represent the country in the
Eurovision Song Contest 2004
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. However,
ERT internally chose superstar
Sakis Rouvas
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and sent him to the Eurovision Song Contest in Istanbul, where Rouvas finished in third place, equalling Greece's best result up to that point.
When she returned to Germany, Gounaki coached, arranged and recorded the new Popstars band Nu Pagadi.
Gounaki cooperates with music producers and musicians such as
Greg Manning,
Toni Cottura
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Musical career
He started his career in 1988 as a hip hop producer with David Fascher and later work ...
or
Marc Mozart
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* German mix-engineer, songwriter ...
,
Lou Bega,
T.M.Stevens, Leslie Mandoki,
Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen
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, Thorsten Brötzmann or Peter Ries and works for major record companies like
Sony BMG
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or
Universal Music
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.
However, she took a break for nine months to spend more time with her family. In October 2005, Gounaki published a book called ''Singen? Kann jeder!'' (Everyone can sing), which she had written while she was on hiatus. The following month she took up studies at the
University of Munich
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to study architecture.
Together with German
Pop Idol
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Alexander Klaws
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and German singer
Jeanette Biedermann
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, Gounaki returned to television with the show ''Beste Stimme gesucht'' (Best voice wanted) on
KI.KA
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, a German TV channel for children. The show scouted for children with a talent for singing. Gounaki also worked very closely with Jeanette Biedermann during her
Bad Girls Club
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Tour 2006 as her voice coach. Her next TV project as vocal coach and a vocal-producer was a Swiss audition show called Musicstar in winter 2006/07 on SF1.
TV
* 2001 –
Popstars
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/ RTL2 Germany (Bro'Sis)
* 2003 –
Popstars
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/ MegaTV Greece (Hi-5)
* 2003 – Popstars "Das Duell"/ Pro Sieben Germany (
Preluders
The Preluders were a pop girl group from Germany. The original group comprised singers Tertia Botha, Miriam Cani, Anh-Thu Doan, Rebecca Miro, and Anne Ross. Created through the ProSieben talent show '' Popstars – Das Duell'' (2003), in which ...
,
Overground)
* 2004 – Eurostar/ NET Greece (
Sakis Rouvas
Anastasios "Sakis" Rouvas ( el, Αναστάσιος "Σάκης" Ρουβάς, ; born 5 January 1972), also known mononymously as Sakis, is a Greek singer, film and television actor, businessman and former pole vaulter and model. Born in Cor ...
)
* 2004 – Popstars "Jetzt Oder Nie"/ Pro Sieben Germany (
Nu Pagadi
Nu Pagadi was a German pop band, formed in December 2004 on the fourth season of international reality television program '' Popstars''. Originally a quartet, from May 2005 a trio, the group described their own musical style as "glam rock". In ...
)
* 2005 – Die Burg/ Pro Sieben Germany
* 2005 – Kika Live/ KI.KA Germany
* 2006/2007 – Musicstar/ SF1 Switzerland
Books
* ''Singen? Kann Jeder!'' (Everyone can sing), Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, 2005,
Discography
Certifications
* 2010 – Platinum for
Sportfreunde Stiller
Sportfreunde Stiller () is a German indie rock band from Germering near Munich, Bavaria.
History
The band was founded by Peter Brugger (guitar, vocals), Florian "Flo" Weber (drums), and Andi Erhard (bass). They initially wanted to name themsel ...
''MTV Unplugged in New York'' (Album – the 14th best-selling album in Germany of 2009)
* 2004 – Gold for
Nu Pagadi
Nu Pagadi was a German pop band, formed in December 2004 on the fourth season of international reality television program '' Popstars''. Originally a quartet, from May 2005 a trio, the group described their own musical style as "glam rock". In ...
''Your Dark Side'' (Album)
* 2004 – Gold for Nu Pagadi ''Sweetest Poison'' (Single)
* 2003 – Gold for
Preluders
The Preluders were a pop girl group from Germany. The original group comprised singers Tertia Botha, Miriam Cani, Anh-Thu Doan, Rebecca Miro, and Anne Ross. Created through the ProSieben talent show '' Popstars – Das Duell'' (2003), in which ...
''Girls in the House'' (Album)
* 2003 – Gold for Preluders ''Everyday Girl'' (Single)
* 2003 – 3× Platinum for
Hi-5 ''Hi-5'' (Album)
* 2003 – 2× Platinum for Hi-5 ''Ksero ti zitao'' (Single)
* 2003 – Gold for Hi-5 ''Mia nihta san ki afti'' (Album)
* 2002 – Gold for
Guano Apes
Guano Apes are a German rock band formed in 1994 in Göttingen. The band consists of Sandra Nasić (vocals), Henning Rümenapp (guitars, backing vocals), Stefan Ude (bass, backing vocals), and Dennis Poschwatta (drums, backing vocals).
AllMusic ...
''
Walking on a Thin Line
''Walking on a Thin Line'' is the third studio album by Guano Apes. It was released on 3 February 2003 by BMG. Title of the album comes from a line in the song "Kiss the Dawn".
The album reached #1 on the German album charts and was certifi ...
'' (Album)
* 2001 – Platinum for
Bro'Sis
Bro'Sis was a multicultural R&B/ pop group from Germany, which was formed through the TV series '' Popstars – Du bist mein Traum'' in 2001. The group comprised the singers Ross Antony, Hila Bronstein, Shaham Joyce, Faiz Mangat, Indira Weis, ...
''Never Forget'' (Album)
* 2001 – 2× Platinum for Bro'Sis ''I Believe'' (Single)
* 2000 – Gold for Guano Apes ''
Don't Give Me Names
''Don't Give Me Names'' is the second album by the German band Guano Apes, released in 2000. It includes the hit single " Big in Japan" (a cover of the Alphaville song), which peaked at #9 on the German charts and remains one of Guano Apes' mos ...
'' (Album)
External links
Artemis Gounaki Official Webpage Artemis Gounaki Official MySpace Site* Literature from and about Artemis Gounaki in Germa
card index of German National Library Vocal coaching on the official MusikStar webpage Artemis on Ki.KA
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1967 births
Living people
Talent managers
German people of Greek descent
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Modern Greek-language singers
English-language singers from Germany
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German women pop singers
German women record producers