JOANPi

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JOANPi was born in Athens, Greece.

As a child, her love of art (especially music) was nurtured by her mother. She started learning (self-taught) keyboards at the age of nine; at the age of seventeen -just after finishing school- she started writing songs. She received training and completed a course in Music Technology in Athens (2000-2002), attended a Music & Media Management (BA) course in London (2004) and then returned to Greece to focus on songwriting and a career as a recording artist under the name JOANPi (2005). In 2006/2007, JOANPi entered various international songwriting competitions with her first complete song "A Day at the Beach" which stood out in the following categories:

Monthly Winner status (Electronica/Dance category) in Song of the Year,

Honorable Mention Winner (Instrumental-any style) in the 11th Annual Unisong International Song Contest,

Semi-Final position (Instrumental category)  in the 2007 UK Songwriting Contest...Read full bio on http://joanpi.virb.com/about-joanpi