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2003
- Saloni M swims East
Anthea
Sidiropoulos
A daughter of the Greek Diaspora in Australia, Melbourne-born
Anthea
Sidiropoulos grew up in a household where politics and music
were always present, especially through her father, the late Theo Sidiropoulos,
the first Greek migrant to enter Australian Politics. In the '60s and
'70s it was the music of the New Wave, a social and cultural movement
that swept Greece and represented cultural rediscovery and a new seriousness
about what it was to be Greek both in Greece and here in Australia. This
is what Anthea identified with through her writing.
Anthea's
musical endeavours began in contemporary music of rock, pop, funk and
blues. A serious illness and too close a contact with death led her in
a new direction – into the music of her family, her roots, her spirit,
her songwriting and composing melodies of an ambient nature, taking herself
and co-composer Achilles Yiangouli, as finalists in the MusicOZ songwriting
competition of 2001. With a music career spanning 15 years, and after
a 7year hiatus, Anthea is back to stay on the music scene for as long
as it will have her...
Check
out her website - anthea.com.au
For
the Saloni M swims East
event on Friday, December 5,
she presented:
a variety of material,
including the original song "Mes Tin
Xenitia". She sang in both Greek and Turkish, and
was accompanied by Irene Vela.
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