Her debut album (Lianotragouda) was poetry by acclaimed poet Yiannis Ritsos with music by Mikis Theodorakis.
Lives for the past couple of years with male model Costa Frangolias, eighteen years her junior.
Graduated from Kypseli 60th High School.
Daughter Sophia Karvelas is an actress and lives in New York City.
Released an album in English produced by Peter Asher, Brian Rawling and Ric Wake.
After a concert she gave in California one LA critic described her stage presence as "a cross between Madonna, Celine Dion and Melina Mercouri."
She has a white maltese dog that travels everywhere with her called "Vanilla"
She only eats organic products, exercises daily, loves going to the movies and her only weakness is popcorn.
Good friends with "Sex and the City" costume designer Patricia Field, who happens to be of Greek heritage.
Her favorite song is "Logia Kai Siopes" from her 2005 album "Nylon".