Krisanthi Pappas

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SOUND AND STYLE
Jazz, cabaret and pop vocalist, Krisanthi Pappas, has been compared to Norah Jones and Diana Krall by JazzTimes Magazine. As well as her vocal gentleness, she has the husky-voiced passion of Bonnie Raitt and the swinging playfulness of Ella Fitzgerald. Cadence Magazine has compared her jazz songwriting style to Randy Newman (music of “Toy Story”, etc.), while her mellow pop songwriting is similar to Colbie Caillat and Michael Buble.

PERFORMING
Based in the Boston-area, Krisanthi is a full-time entertainer playing an average of 150 performances a year at jazz concert venues, singer-songwriter series, festivals, resorts, clubs and private events throughout New England and New York City. She has also performed throughout the U.S. and Caribbean and has opened for or shared the stage with such jazz greats as Branford Marsalis, Chuck Mangione, The Yellowjackets, Manhattan Transfer's Cheryl Bentyne, Kevin Mahogany, Gary Burton and Makoto Ozone as well as pop sensations The B-52s. Krisanthi also plays piano and drums on some of her songs as well as writing her band's musical arrangements.

Krisanthi has been the musical director and/or a performer for many prestigious events such as Governor Deval Patrick's Inaugural Celebration as well as benefits including the Faulkner Hospital Breast Center in Boston, Making Strides Against Breast Cancer, The Relay For Life and others. Her Sister Friends For Life Concert featured herself with other acclaimed singers and many Boston radio personalities from WMJX and KISS 108.

INTERNATIONAL AIRPLAY
You can hear Krisanthi singing her original music and lyrics on episodes of NBC televison's "Parenthood" and ABC's "One Life To Live", as well as having aired on NBC's "Passions" and HereTV's "The Lair". You can also hear her performing her original song "One Slow Dance A Day" in the 2008 Mayon Film U.S. movie "Green River" and her song "If I Had Only Known" in the 2008 Lazy Susan Productions Canadian film "Tying The Not". Her song “If I Had Only Known” is featured on the compilation CD distributed to the European subscribers of Jazz Magazine along with a full feature article in the March 2008 issue.

Krisanthi’s CDs are played on jazz radio stations and programs throughout the Boston area and several states nationwide and in Canada as well as on many internet radio stations including Pandora, bandradiolive, acousticfuel and others.

SONGWRITING AWARDS
Krisanthi is the 2nd place Jazz Winner of the 2010 prestigious Billboard® World Song Contest and The Next Holiday Classic Song Contest for her song “You and Me by the Christmas Tree” as well as having been the 3rd place Billboard® winner in 2006 for her song “One Slow Dance A Day”. She also tied for 1st place in NYC’s Cabaret Hotline Members' Choice Songwriters' Favorite Song Award for her song "My Back Yard" and was an Honor Award winner in the 10th Annual Great American Song Contest for her song “You and Me by the Christmas Tree”. She has continued to receive songwriting awards from the ASCAP Popular Music Awards Panel every year since 1999 for her music and lyrics in jazz, cabaret and pop.

Krisanthi’s songs are also performed live in her own concerts as well as by many other cabaret and jazz performers in New York City, Boston and Washington DC.

RECORDING
Krisanthi’s most recent CD “Broadway Favorites ...and All That Jazz!” is a live recording of Krisanthi and her band performing jazzy arrangements of songs from Broadway shows plus two songs that she wrote. Her holiday CD “You and Me by the Christmas Tree”, features her jazz and pop arrangements of holiday classics along with two new Christmas songs that she wrote. Her other CDs, "My Back Yard", "A Centennial Tribute To George and Ira Gershwin" and a live recording of her show, "Celebratin' Swing", are a mix of her jazzy arrangements of classic songs as well as her heartfe