SOUND AND STYLE
Jazz, cabaret and pop vocalist, Krisanthi Pappas, has the vocal gentleness of Norah Jones, the husky-voiced passion of Bonnie Raitt and the swinging playfulness of Ella Fitzgerald. Her jazz songwriting style has been compared to Randy Newman (music of “Toy Story”,etc.), while her mellow pop songwriting is similar to Sarah McLachlan and Norah Jones.

PERFORMING
Based in the Boston-area, Krisanthi is a full-time entertainer playing an average of 150 performances a year at jazz concert series, festivals, resorts, clubs and private events throughout New England and New York City. She has also performed throughout the U.S. and Caribbean and has opened for or shared the stage with such jazz greats as Branford Marsalis, Chuck Mangione, The Yellowjackets, Manhattan Transfer's Cheryl Bentyne, Kevin Mahogany, Gary Burton and Makoto Ozone as well as pop sensations The B-52s. Krisanthi also plays piano and drums on some of her songs as well as writing her band's musical arrangements.

Krisanthi has been the musical director and/or a performer for many benefits including the Faulkner Hospital Breast Center in Boston, Making Strides Against Breast Cancer, The Relay For Life and others. Her Sister Friends For Life Concert featured herself with other acclaimed singers and many Boston radio personalities from WMJX and KISS 108.

NATIONAL AIRPLAY
You can hear Krisanthi singing her original music and lyrics on ABC television’s “One Life To Live”, NBC’s “Passions” and HereTV’s “The Lair”. You can also hear her performing her original song "One Slow Dance A Day" in the 2008 Mayon Film movie "Green River" and her song “If I Had Only Known” in the 2008 Lazy Susan Productions film “Tying The Not”. Krisanthi’s CDs are played on jazz radio stations and programs throughout the Boston area and several states nationwide.

SONGWRITING ACCOLADES
Krisanthi’s song “If I Had Only Known” is featured on the compilation CD distributed to the European subscribers of Jazz Magazine along with a full feature article in the March 2008 issue. Her song "You and Me By The Christmas Tree" was released December 2007 on a holiday compilation CD by Crescent Music and Media, based out of North Carolina.

Krisanthi is the 2006 3rd place Jazz Winner of the prestigious Billboard World Song Contest. She also tied for first place in NYC’s Cabaret Hotline 2006 Members' Choice Songwriters' Favorite Song Award for her song "My Back Yard". She has continued to receive songwriting awards from the ASCAP Popular Music Awards Panel every year since 1999 for her music and lyrics in jazz, cabaret and pop.

Krisanthi’s songs are also performed live in her own concerts as well as by many other cabaret and jazz performers in New York City, Boston and Washington DC.

RECORDING
Krisanthi’s newest CD “You and Me by the Christmas Tree”, features her jazz and pop arrangements of holiday classics along with two new songs that she wrote. Her other CDs, "My Back Yard", "A Centennial Tribute To George and Ira Gershwin" and a live recording of her show, "Celebratin' Swing", are a mix of her jazzy arrangements of classic songs as well as her heartfelt original songs.

Krisanthi's CDs and digital downloads on iTunes, etc. have been purchased by fans in Italy, Portugal, Switzerland, Brazil, Spain, Japan, Australia, Canada and throughout the U.S. They have received many impressive press reviews and continue to sell thousands of copies, receiving air play and high accolades on radio stations nationwide and in Canada.

OTHER
In addition to her own band and various jazz combos, Krisanthi is the lead singer for Boston's popular group, "The John Payne Band". (John was formerly with Van Morrison, Michael Franks, Bonnie Raitt and others.)

Also a proficient pianist, Krisanthi plays solo piano/vocal engagements at New England venues. She is fortunate to spend winters performing solo in the Caribbean.

In other areas of musical employment, Krisanthi is the songwriter and singing voice heard on many New England television and radio jingles.

As a private instructor of piano, music theory, and vocal performance, she is a member of The National Association for Music Education and The International Association of Jazz Educators.

Krisanthi is also a member of the Boston Association of Cabaret Artists (BACA), the Boston Songwriters Workshop and ASCAP.

In other areas of musical enjoyment, Krisanthi likes to play several other instruments, tap dance and swing dance.

Krisanthi (which means "golden flower" in Greek) has been dubbed the "golden voice" by her jazz colleagues. She has been supporting herself successfully as a full-time professional entertainer ever since she was old enough to have a job.

Krisanthi Pappas started performing at a very young age by singing and dancing for the traffic lined up in front of her house. "That way I could sing the same songs over and over and I had a new audience every few minutes" she laughs in recalling the memory. Born and raised in Brockton, Massachusetts by music-loving parents, Krisanthi began playing classical piano concerts and performing in community musical theater at the age of eight. Krisanthi's first professional "gigs" were at the age of fourteen when she began singing, playing piano and dancing at company banquets. By age sixteen, she had landed her first house gig on Sunday nights at a local supper club, earning more money than her entire week's salary from McDonalds :) An active performer in the Brockton High School drama club, Krisanthi received both the Dominee Most Valuable Player Award for acting and singing versatility as well as The Richard Rosen Comedy Scholarship Award before graduating in the top 10% of her class.

After high school, she grabbed the opportunity to go on the road and spent many years singing at resorts, cruise ships, hotels, festivals and clubs throughout the United States and the Caribbean. Krisanthi was given an award for distinguished service as an outstanding entertainer by the U.S. District Court of Boston, Massachusetts. She also performed professionally in many musical theater productions and local television commercials.

Between shows, road gigs and recording projects, Krisanthi has pursued her formal education in Voice, Piano, Music Theory, Music Fundamentals, Music Classroom Education, Music History, MIDI in Computers and Synthesizers, Songwriting, Jazz Theory, Ear Training and Improvisation for both piano and voice at Boston Conservatory of Music, Bridgewater State College, Longy School of Music, Berklee College of Music and Westminster Choir College at Princeton University.

Krisanthi kept her focus in the pop music field for the beginning years of her career as a songwriter and recording artist with independent record labels in Studio City, CA, New York and Philadelphia. Having sung every style of music from rock, country, jazz, show tunes, pop and R&B, Krisanthi went back to her roots and first love - jazz and cabaret. She made her jazz recording debut on Magnetic Music's compilation CD "Boston Sings Out" in 1996. She then sold out the prestigious Scullers Jazz Club in Boston for the release concert of her first solo CD in November 1997. It was obvious that her audiences agreed she had taken the right career path.