Kristi Stassinopoulou

Kristi Stassinopoulou is perhaps the most visible performer of one of the newest innovations to world music -- the ethnotrance movement -- and one of only a very few based both geographically and culturally in Europe. With early exposure to Byzantine hymns and local traditional forms, Stassinopoulou quickly embraced the Mediterranean radio diversity, investing time in Arab, Spanish, Italian, and Balkan music. Falling in with traveling hippie tourists, she also took a strong interest in psychedelic rock, basing much of her earliest work on Jefferson Airplane and their kindred s...