Headline July13,2012/Supernova Yanni

SU-PER-NO-VA  YANNI

The world will never believe, how many requests and implorations I received to honour Yanni Chrysonallis. So as you great student stars, read this sterling craft from !WOW!  Click the music button.

"God, please tell me, what's a Yanni?" 

The fans scream and scream and turn polite and polite. Yanni smiles a spiritual delight as he catalogues them, - the happy lovers, the averted sucidals, who grasp his hands and say "Thank you", the Surgeons whose hands and nerves are steadied, the hospital patients whose rampaging blood pressure slows - and this is a documented fact!! - after hearing just five minutes of taped Yanni! Even those humans and businessmen with little music in their soul just warm at his name. 

The English arm of the ad giant Saatchi & Saatchi commissioned his soaring "Aria" for those lavish British Airways commercials wherein platoons of card-carrying humans formed a giant face on some salt flats. TV sports producers insist there's nothing better than a few quivering bars of Yanni to goose a slo-mo clip on the crunching agony of fourth-down defeat. His "Santorini" inspired by the magic of that Greek Island, was the theme song of CBS's U.S. Open Tennis coverage in 90s.

With his bold strokes and flammable moments, Yanni stood and became the aural equivalent of LeRoy Neiman! Never mind that some mad critics have dubbed him "Yawni" when it comes to bang for the buck, once snooty public TV fund raisers now rank a Yanni performance just a half octave below the once record breaking ofering of the Three Tenors.


Only years ago, in some PBS markets, he was as beloved as Barneys. His early Albums did not even carry pictures of him, just abstract designs . Mention his name in early 90s and you'd get weird responses:

"Isn't he the guy who plays the pan flute on those TV ads."

Even as late as 90s. Yanni was a well tended secret. But thanks in huge part to great thinking by PBS concert special , "Yanni live at the Acropolis" and there are now millions by millions of voluble devoutees and an International Fan Club. In 90s alone his ten albums had sold more than 12 million copies. yanni fans from 6 to 70 besiege him after shows to share thousands of stories of personal encounters  with his impassioned orchestrations - big, feel good music that's often likened to that of Vangelis and Andreas Vollenweider.

To ask Yanni about musical influences is to risk a lecture on the absurditiy of assuming those influences must be, well, musical. So let me end this continuing post on a rare revelation.

Yanni inspirations  according to him are, Prophet Mohammed and Christ, Peace be upon them!! Mahtama Gandhi! Michelangelo! Da Vinci! And we the converted will never get enough of Yanni.

Good night and God bless.

Sam Daily Times - the Voice of the Voiceless