Paola (born Pagona Karamitsou on 25 June 1982) is a
Greek singer.
Early life and career
Born on 25 June 1982 in
Thessaloniki and raised in
Sykia Halkidiki Sykia or Sykea (Greek meaning fig tree) may refer to a number of places in Greece:
*Sykia, Chalkidiki, a village in the municipal unit Toroni, Chalkidiki
*Sykia, Corinthia, a village in the municipal unit Xylokastro, Corinthia
*Sykia, Imathia, a v ...
. Ηer Greek parents, Alexandros and Maria, were also musicians. She has an older brother Pericles.
Paola began singing at 14 years old at the suggestion of a shopkeeper and with the approval of her parents. At 19, she was singing in the nightclub ''Mamounia'' in Thessaloniki.
Career
In 2005 she published her first album, ''Silent'', and then moved to
Athens to work with
Stamatis Gonidis. In 2007 she worked with
Sotis Volanis on a duet titled "Grandma and Grandpa" which enjoyed great success. In 2008 she released her second album, "We went with red." In 2012, she released the album "Be One With me" which went gold with tracks including ''Be With Me One'', ''Fault'', ''Be quiet m'afiseis want'', ''Artificial'', ''What catches''. On 24 April 2013 she released the album "After The Midnight" which went platinum within three days.
In December 2013, she released the album ''The Truth Alone'' containing the successful songs: ''Hold On'', ''Finished Statements Zero''. ''Hold On'' was the 10th biggest radio hit of 2013. On 17 November 2014 she released the new song ''I A Life'', foreshadowing the next disc ''I hide vagrancy'', released in early 2015. The songs that stood out from this disc are: I A Life, These I said God, How Many Times, Cold Embrace.
Personal life
On 8 April 2003 she gave birth to a daughter, Paolina.
Discography
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Athoryva (Silent), 2005
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Perasame me kokkino (We Went with Red), 2008
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Gine mazi mou ena
Gine may refer to:
People
* Alejandro Moya Gine, Spanish lightweight rower
* Aleksander Gine (1830–1980), Russian painter
* , French cartoonist
* Joan Giné i Partagàs (1836–1903), Spanish physician and writer
* Mary Gine Riley (1883–1939), ...
(Be One with Me), 2012
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Meta ta mesanihta (live)
Meta (from the Greek μετά, ''meta'', meaning "after" or "beyond") is a prefix meaning "more comprehensive" or "transcending".
In modern nomenclature, ''meta''- can also serve as a prefix meaning self-referential, as a field of study or ende ...
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H moni alitheia
H, or h, is the eighth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''aitch'' (pronounced , plural ''aitches''), or region ...
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Krivo alitia
References
21st-century Greek women singers
1982 births
Living people
Singers from Thessaloniki
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