Dj, Bass, Arranger, Producer
Orestis was born in 1978 in Athens. He started guitar lessons at the age of 14 and gradually started using new methods of producing electronic music (samplers, sequencers, etc). He studied Engineer Systems in Imperial College of London and continued with a masters degree in Digital Sound from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. In 2002, he returned to Greece to create Kiwi Music Studio along with Niko Lavda while working as a radio producer in En Lefko Radio (2003-2005) and a DJ in Guru Bar. These years were when Orestis and his brother Lysandros started the Imam Baildi project. He has also …
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Drums, Percussion, Keyboards, Arranger Producer
He was born in 1982 in Athens. He started studying music at the age of 15 with drums, classical percussion, piano and music theory. He studied Politics in Athens University and continued his musical studies in Rotterdams Conservatorium (Netherlands) at the Jazz Composition and Orchestration department. In 2005, he returned to Greece and started working on the Imam Baildi project along with his brother Orestis. He has written music for theater plays, documentaries, TV commercials and short films.
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Lead Vocalist
Rena was born in Volos. She graduated from Athens University with a degree from the Historical and Archaeological department of Philosophy School. She started studying singing in her school years alongside established vocalists such as Vaso Zagori, Claudia Delmer, Fofi Rousou, Elli Paspala and Natasha Flouri. She made her stage debut alongside Foivos Delivorias, has cooperated with Panagiotis Kalantzopoulos in concerts and recordings, and is a recording vocalist in Disney and Mattel movies. She has been a member of Imam Baildi since 2011.
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MC stuff, freestyle, crowd manager
Mc Yinka was born in 1981 and raised in Athens.He did his first steps by Mcing in Drum N' Bass parties along with Dj Texture, with whom created Urban Links. He is a founding member of the hip-hop band Adiaspasti Ousia and Paragontes, along with Kostas Kougioumtzi. As a Mc and lead vocalist, he is a member of Street Buzz, Dr.Votkanini, Imam Baidi, and as an electric bass player. a member of Direct Connection. He is the creator of music projects Urbanix and Fuzics. He participated by doing vocals in many parties along with famous Athenian Djs, in the recording of Filippos Pliatsikas album Omnia …
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Clarinet, Saxophone
He was born in Edessa in 1986. He received a clarinet diploma from Edessa’s municipal conservatory. Today he is a teacher in KEPEΜ, and has been a teacher in Aridaia’s and Edessa’s municipal conservatories. In 1999, he won first prize in the Panhellenic Student Competition playing with the ‘Karatzovites’ Orchestra. He has recorded for Imam Baildi, Stamatis Kraounakis, Giorgos Mazonakis, Haris Kostopoulos, Besidos and others.
He has produced a personal album named 'Mousika Iamata - Afieroma sto Giorgi Ouroumi’, and is a founding member of the music project "Chouska”. He has been a member of I…
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El. Guitar
He was born in Athens in 1982. He had lessons in music theory and electric guitar in the Praxis Music Conservatory along with his studies in Athens TEI in the Graphic Arts Technology department. Since 2006, he has participated in several albums and concerts as a solo artist and as a lead guitarist together with Dimitra Galani, Haris Alexiou, Imam Baildi, Giannis Haroulis, a.o. He is a founding member of Modrec, Spectralfire, Insect Radio and Wedding Singers.
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Bouzouki
He was born in Athens in 1991. His first steps with bouzouki began when he was 10. At the age of 15 he started playing professionally in various local music places and got his degree in music theory from Modern Corinthian Conservatory. In 2009 and alongside with his studies in preschool education at the University of Athens, he apprenticed next to some of the best bouzouki musicians like Nikos Tatasopoulos, Grigoris Vasilas and Spyros Goumas. The same year and until 2012 he attended traditional bagpipe lessons at the National Conservatory of Athens with Giorgos Makris and in 2015 he found hims…
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Bouzouki
Alexis was born in Athens in 1982. He started playing music at the age of 5 with classical piano. In 1992, he switched to bouzouki and related plucked string instruments such as lute, oud, guitar and others. In 2005, he graduated from the Surrey Institute of the Creative Arts with a master’s degree in Visual Communication. He has cooperated with many artists, such as Dimitra Galani, Glikeria, Mary Linda. He has been a member of Imam Baildi since 2008.
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El. Guitar
Stelios was born and grew up in Athens. At the age of 4, after finding his father's old classical guitar, he started Guitar, Theory and Music Harmony lessons at Zografou National Conservatory. At the age of 12 he bought an electric guitar that changed his life. 3 years after he made Planet(s) of Zeus band along with his classmate and best friend, Babis Papanikolaou. 15 years after Planet(s) of Zeus band is his core business. At the age of 19 he became a founding member of The Flibbertigibbets and the Funky Yoghurt along with with Mina Liako and Seraphim Giannakopoulo. He has co-operated with s…
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El. Guitar
Minas Liakos was born in Athens in 1984. Since 2003, he has played in several projects (TFATFY, Fingers Crossed, Mc Yinka & the Urbanix, Imam Baildi) and composed his first movie soundtrack for the short film “The Drifter”. During that time he studied guitar lessons with Gregory Ntanis and in 2009 he continued his studies at the New School For Jazz and Contemporary Music of New York, and graduated cum laude in January 2013.
Following his return in Athens in 2013, he is currently composing the soundtrack for “The Republic”, and performing with Greek music projects such as Night Knight, Chouska…
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Trumpet
He was born in Edessa in 1988. At the age of 6 he started his music studies in the Municipal Conservatory in Edessa. In 1999 he began studying trumpet next to Tasos Diskos. In 2013, he graduated cum laude from the Northern Greece Conservatory next to Anastasios Giamouridis, following his studies in the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki from 2004 till 2011. He has won many prizes in Panhellenic Student Contests and has participated in several classical music ensembles. He has been constantly performing and recording as a member of traditional brass ensembles, and has cooperated with Greek arti…
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