Areti Ketime (; born 26 July 1989) is a Greek singer and santur player. She sings

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Greek songs of various music genres.

Early life

Ketime was born and raised in

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, Greece. She started learning how to play the

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at the age of six, from Aristidis Moschos and the

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ian Angelina Tkatseva. At the age of 15 (in 2005), she became a professional performer.

Career

In 2002, Greek musician and singer Yorgos Dalaras invited her to participate in his live appearances in

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together with Gerasimos Andreatos and Melina Aslanidou. In 2003, she participated in a show about

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's musical tradition show with Dalaras,

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, and the orchestra Estoudiantina. In 2004, she participated in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Athens, with the traditional son
"Mes Stou Egeou Ta Nisia"
("Into the Islands of the Aegean"). In 2005, she participated in the Greek tragedy play "

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" in

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, as a member of the "Chorus" led by George Dalaras. In 2008, she took part in a concert titled ''Kyklamina'' ("

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s") in which she performed a series of songs called ''Tragoudia tis Ksenitias'' ("Songs of Emigration") along with George Kotsinis in Aristi,

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. In 2010, she teamed up with Turkish singer Dilek Koç in a concert titled "The songs of our mutual tradition", in which they mostly performed common-root songs of Greece and Turkey, at the Half Note Jazz Club. In 2011, she performed the Byzantine Hymns of the

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live on TV shows, along with Charilaos Taliadoros and Christos Chalkias. In 2012 she performed a concert titled
Smirneiko Minore
, with

and Dilek Koç. It was a tribute to the traditional music of

. In 2015, she participated as a musician in children's theatre version of ''

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'' directed by Ilias Karellas. In May 2015, Areti Ketime made her first

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n tour, in which she was accompanied by a six-piece band of musicians and also by brothers Grigoris and Petros Papaemmanouil. Later in 2015, Ketime collaborated with German DJ

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on the bilingual song "EastWest/Dysi Ki Anatoli", from Shantel's new album ''Viva Diaspora''. During the 2015-16 season, Ketime participates in the children's theatre play "To Monon tis Zois tou Taksidion" ("

The Only Journey of His Life The Only Journey of his Life (Greek: Το μόνον της ζωής του Ταξείδιον) is a short-novel of the Greek writer Georgios Vizyinos (also written Yeoryios Vizyinos), released in 1884. The novel was brought out in two parts in t ...

"). In September 2017, it was announced that Areti was one of the 18 contestants participating in the Greek national final for the

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. The song is written by her best friend Dimitris Karras. While the song was chosen as one of the final three songs in the selection, it was disqualified as Ketime's record label did not pay the €20,000 fee requested by ERT to finance the national final.

Discography

*''Me tin Foni tis Aretis'' ("With Areti's Voice") (2010) *''Kali sou Tihi'' ("Good Luck to You") (2011) *''Pinakas Zografikis'' ("Painting") (2012) * ''Aidonaki mou'' ("My Nightingale") (2014)

References

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