Papazoglou Sofia

Sophia Papazoglou was born in Brussels, Belgium but in the age of 6 she permanently moved with her family in Thessaloniki. She has graduated from the Pedagogic Department of Primary Education (Aristoteleio University of Thessaloniki) nevertheless, simultaneously with her university studies she cooperated with Kyriakos Kalaitzides in concerts around Macedonia, Greece, thus, utilizing her intense remembrances of traditional and folk music, preserved from her childhood.  Later on, she attended Mary Tsouti's classes on body movement, while she was also studying vocals at the Contemporary Conservatory of Athens with Mideia Iasonidou as her mentor.

Sophia Papazoglou has cooperated with foremost Greek artists such as Elefteria Arvanitaki, Yiorgos Dalaras, Chronis Aidonides, Christos Tsiamoulis, Dionisis Savvopoulos, Eleni Vitali etc. With numerous participations in record releases of traditional and folk music, Sophia Papazoglou has also released her own personal records "Stenagmos Anatolitis" (Lyra, 1996), "Pame Notia" (Lyra, 1998) and "Osa sou moiazoun" (Universal Music, 2002).

Some of Sophia's Papazoglou most critical moments in her career noteworthy are her cooperation with ESTOUDIANTINA (2000) in traditional songs, her participation in the Saint-Denis Festival (Paris, 2000), where she performed old rebetika and Asia Minor songs, her performance in Herodium in the Lykeio Ellinidon's play "Thalassa" (2001), her performance in Athens Concert Hall in Nikos Mamagakis' play "Ta Iera Tragoudia tou Erota" (2001), her collaboration with the music ensemble "Dinameis tou Aigaiou", which ended up in a tour in Australia (2002), her performance in the Summer Stage Festival in Central Park of New York with Dionisis Savvopoulos and Alkinoos Ioannides (2003), her cooperation with the music ensembles SMYRNA TRIO and BRAVE OLD WORLD (2003) and, last but not least, Sophia's Papazoglou appearance in the 4th Annual Festival of Greek Music and Dance (2003)

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