Born in Athens, Greece, Savina Yannatou studied song with G.Georilopoulou at the National Conservatory
and later with Spiros Sakkas at the Workshop of Vocal Art in Athens.
She attended postgraduate studies (performance and communication skills) at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London,
with a scholarship awarded by the Mousigetis Foundation.
Her professional career as a singer started while still a student,
when she sang for the very successful and until today highly respected daily program
of the Greek National Radio 3 «Lillipoupoli» under the direction of the famous composer Manos Hadjidakis.
After that she interpreted «entechno» («artful») Greek songs,
collaborating with well-known Greek composers and also covered contemporary opera and music.
Later she focused on medieval, renaissance and barock music,
and in the early nineties she discovered her love for vocal improvisation.
Parallel to that she started a collaboration with a number of Thessaloniki-based musicians,
who at that occasion founded the group «Primavera en Salonico»,
with which she recorded ?Primavera en Salonico?-Sephardic Folk Songs from Salonica-,
?Songs from the Mediterranean? the ?Virgin Maries of the World? and in 2001 ?Terra Nostra?,
a Live CD which is being released world wide by ECM records now (all released by LYRA/ Musurgia Graeca,
the second also in the USA by Sounds True under the name ?Mediterranea?).
Savina Yannatou has also composed her own music and songs (a.o. ?Rosa das Rosas?, released in 2000 by Musurgia Graeca),
as well as music for theater ( the latest being for Medea, performed in 1997 by the National Greek Theatre),
video art and dance theater. All together she has brought out and participated in over 25 LPs and CDs.
Her professional career as a singer since 1979 and as a composer-singer-vocalist
since 1986 has been covering performances, festivals, theater and TV production, recordings etc.
