Lamia Bedioui is a Tunisian singer and story teller, living in Greece since 1992. She studied Economics at the University of Tunis where she gained her Bachelor?s and Master?s degree. She studied music and singing at the Tunis Conservatory and at the National Conservatory of Athens. She has also attended many body-movement, voice-training and theater workshops.
From 2002 until 2010, she participated at the Vocal Arts Workshop under the Greek baritone Spyros Sakkas.
In 2012, she graduated from the story-telling School of Athens (Center for myth and fairy tales studies).She is a founding member of the House of Oral tradition " Mythologio "
Her professional career in singing started in 1995. Her repertoire embraces mainly traditional music and songs
from the countries around the Mediterranean as well as contemporary vocal compositions . She has collaborated with many Greek and international singers, musicians and performers of the Ethnic and Jazz music scenes such as Savina Yiannatou , Jon Balke, Wouter Vandenabeele, El jazzeera, Estudiantina Orchestra,Nikos Kipourgos?
She has participated in the creation of several music albums : Songs of the Mediterranean, Terra Nostra, In Gedeonis Area, Krotala, Basse classe ,Metamorf?.
Her first personal CD ? Fin?Amor ? in collaboration with
the performer and percussionist Solis Barki was released
in 2006. The new album ? Athamra ? is released in April 2015 .
She frequently appears before the public in music scenes and venues in Athens and all over Greece as well as in international music festivals ( Belgium, Germany, Italy, Cyprus, Tunisia, France..).
She has also participated as a performer and singer in theater productions and modern dance performances amongst which are Maria Panoutsou,Natasha Zouka, Marina Mergou, Alessandra Maioletti, Ermira Goro?
Tracks:
1. El mar - Sea / music : Loukia Konstantatou , lyrics : Cecilia Joyce
2. Sti filaki - In jail / Traditional from Asia Minor
3. Lo guarracino - Coracino / Traditional from Naples , Italy
4. A la srir ennoum - In his arm / Old song from Tunisia c.1920
5. Mau marideia - The hapless wife / Traditional from Marseilles , France
6. I pirati a Palermu - The pirates in Palermo / Song from Sicilia , Italy , music : Rosa Balistreri , lyrics : Ignazio Buttita
7. Intro 8. Yia kalbi - My heart / Traditional from Algeria
9. Kato stou valtou - Down at the swamp / Traditional from Greece
10. Gerineldo - Gerineldo / Sephardic romance
11. Ana radhik - Tell me, coquette / Old song from Tunisia c.1920
12. Intro 13. Salouni aalache - The wedding / Traditional from Morocco
14. To oniro - The dream / music : Lamia Bedioui , text : Lamia Bedioui
