Marina Satti was born in Greece. Her father is from Sudan, her mother is from Greece and she grew up in Crete. With different cultural influences, Marina was involved in design and music from a very young age. She studied Drama and Architecture and received a degree in classical piano and classical singing.
In 2009 she represented Greece in the European Jazz Orchestra (EBU) while in 2011 she graduated with a scholarship from the Berklee College of Music (Contemporary Writing & Production). She has worked with artists such as Bobby McFerrin, Paco de Lucia, Wayne Shorter, Danilo Perez, Nikos Mamagakis, Nikos Kypourgos, Stavros Gasparatos and has collaborated, as an actor, with National Theatre of Greece, the Greek National Opera, The Athens and Epidaurus Festival.
In 2016, Marina created a women’s vocal group called ‘Fonέs’. In 2017 she founded the choir ‘Fonέs’ made up of 50 women while her latest single “Mantissa” orchestrated by herself, surpassed 35 million views on YouTube. It reached #1 in the Greek and Bulgarian charts and secured her a worldwide publishing deal with Universal Music Berlin.
Read moreIn November 2017 Marina appeared at Google’s ‘Europe on Stage’ in the Bozar Centre of Fine Arts in Brussels, featuring her among the “10 most interesting YouTube acts of 2017”. In addition, the Votre Beaute readers voted her as “Best Woman Musician of the Year.” Marina lives now in Athens, experimenting with polyphonic music and composing original music for the theatre and cinema.
She enchanted the TransMusicales! Between polyphonic songs, traditional Greek sounds and modern influences, Marina Satti's performance in a live session for Culturebox is a must see. CultureBox - France télévisions
An artist not to be missed. This Greek singer is one of the personalities of this edition. Marina Satti's music is an incredible mix of traditional Greek sound, polyphony, electro and hip-hop. She’s really musically unique. France 3
Marina Satti, with Arab and Balkan influences, is a real phenomenon in Greece. Ouest France
We really recommend you to go and see Marina Satti at the TransMusicales! General Pop
Figure of the musical revival: Marina Satti, the song of a dancing Greece. Tribune de Genève
New revelation of the current music scene, Marina Satti reconciles polyphonic singing and urban pop and is a sensation in her native Greece. After a concert in Geneva this summer, she will perform this Thursday at the TransMusicales in Rennes. We will hear a lot about her. Le Temps
Yes, the princess of the TransMusicales is indeed Greek, offering to the public a show full of mysteries and fantasies, full of Balkan folk and pop without borders. Marina Satti delivered a lesson in modern polyphonic, flirting between the authenticity of a Hellenic heritage extending to old Ottoman influences, and a mastery of the most current rhythms punctuated with rap and electronic arrangements. FIP
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