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Singer/songwriter Lina Koutrakos is a Diva for the ages. Her southern influenced music is rooted in both her nomadic childhood and Greek heritage and it presents us with an artist whose voice is alive with a cultural intimacy we didn’t know existed until we experience her incredible talent. Her one in a million voice is equal parts sensual and sizzle. It can whisper in your ear and peel paint off the walls! She sings with amazing spirit, extraordinary energy, and perhaps most exciting of all, a joyous celebration that will rock your soul. Koutrakos has repeated sold out the legendary "Bottom Line" and sang to standing room only at Manhattans B.B Kings. She won the 2007 MAC Award for 'Best Female Vocalist of the Year' in New York City. Her powerful band weaves their way from world pop through southern rock to gospel blues in a musical tapestry that has played to rave reviews in most of the top venues throughout Manhattan. Lina has been featured in The New York Times, Billboard Magazine and Mode Magazine. nd Soap in addition to hundreds of rave, high profile reviews and interviews in many of New York City's major periodicals. The band has garnered fans the likes of Meryl Streep, Kathleen Turner, Tom Hanks and the late Gregory Hines. Spring 2008's release of her long waited CD/DVD double disc "The Low Country" features her emotive vocals, production by the bands guitarist Jean-Pierre Perreaux and her award winning original material. (KoutrakosAmerican Songwriter Magazine this past year.) Her first independent CD - "Leave A Little Something" has sold thousands of copies. More of Lina’s original material is being played on Television nation wide and Radio stations throughout the world, most notably the BBC. Her unique, emotive voice was featured in the critically acclaimed America Undercover HBO documentary “Telling Nicholas”. She wraps up this moving 9/11 film with her own sensitive and flawless rendition of its heartrending closing theme song. was chosen out of hundreds of her peers to be part of ASCAP'S Advanced songwriting workshop and has received accolades on a handful of her original pop/rock songs. The hauntingly sentimental duet “For Now” (a collaborative effort with D.Gross and J. Rodgers) was given a Certificate of Merit from As a lyricist, Lina's words become the paintings that allow us an all too brief, nearly visual glimpse into her inner soul and her melodies are spun into “hooks” that leave you singing them over and over. She is the recipient of the Manhattan Assoc. Clubs and Cabaret award, the Village Voice Award for Best Rock Newcomer, and France’s prestigious Petite Piaf Award all for Best Female Vocalist. |