The album remained at number 18 in overall album sales (based on the official IFPI music market index) for over 18 weeks until. The album also includes a cover of an old song entitled Giati fovasai (Why are you afraid) with music by Stelios Vlavianos and lyrics by Pythagoras. On the album, she collaborates with Margarita Mytilinaiou, who wrote the lyrics for some of the tracks, and Dimitris Kontopoulos, who composed one of the songs and did the arrangement of the whole album. The songs are fresh and lively, with a strong personal style and their melody is “flowing”, complementing the dynamism and the spontaneity of the text. Having composed the music and written the lyrics for most of the tracks herself, she is trying to open a new, fresh and direct channel of communication. 1999: Etsi eimai ego (This is what I am) is the title of her second solo album, containing 11 songs and released by Virgin Records.On 8 March 1998 her song Tipota (Nothing) is selected among 113 entries for the final stage of the competition, for the song representing Greece at the Eurovision Song Contest, coming up second out of the 10 competing songs, only by few votes behind the winner.In 1995 Iro releases her first album entitled Atima ta pragmata (Things are tricky) and sets out on a unique journey.Before even releasing her first solo album, she contributes with two wonderful ballads to an album by Nikos Laryngakis, released under the title Atakto paidi (Naughty child).

After all she strongly believes that the public is key to the artist and that communicating with the public is true music-making. A modest and self-conscious artist, having conquered her personal and artistic balance over time, she manages to convey to the audience -through her compositions and live performances- inner feelings and deep emotions.

To her, playing the piano, writing lyrics or composing fall almost under the same title: communicating with the world and living in harmony amid time changes. “Music is made by constantly blending classic with new”įlexible, with a very wide range of music skills and daring to experiment with various music genres, from Greek “classics” that make up her main canvas to modern arrangements, ballads, ethnic and lyrical sounds, she is literally “living and growing with music”.

Pragmata initial release date