Dafné Kritharas

Franco-Greek singer Dafné Kritharas finds her inspiration in a repertoire born from the convergence of cultures that cohabited for four centuries under the Ottoman Empire. Inspired by the different melodies of her Cretan childhood, the singer mixes them with Bosnian, Armenian and Turkish sounds, songs and instruments, and adds jazz, folk and subtle electro touches. Marked by the loss of her father when she was two years old, she makes this absence the framework of her albums, poetises this sadness around Greek and Judeo-Spanish songs and tells of exile, the immensity of the sea, separations and reunions.

Dafné Kritharas surrounds herself with musicians of diverse origins to build bridges between cultures, countries and religions.