Maravegias Kostis

Kostis Maraveyas, a versatile artist & original member of the Mediterranean music family, is a composer, arranger, singer, and instrumentalist. He is a skilled accordionist, guitarist, pianist, performer.
He entered the world music scene early, in 1998, as member of X Darawish, a multinational band based in Italy.
In 2003 he recorded his first solo album ‘Radiopirate’, rooted in his experience of living and musically acting both in Italy and Greece.
From 2003 to 2006 has joined numerous gigs and festivals all over Greece and Europe. He has collaborated with Dionisis Savopoulos, Evanthia Reboutsika, Panayotis Kalantzopoulos & Eli Paspala.
In July of 2007 Kostis has recorded his second album forming his new multiethnic band. In ‘ilegal’, Balkan electric guitars, Latin trumpets, Jewish saxophones, classical cello are perfectly fused together under ska, reggae, rock, punk, r&b rhythms, all influenced by traditional Greek, and gypsy melodies plenty of free improvisation parts.