Angélique Ionatos

She lived as a member of the Greek diaspora in France from 1981[a] or earlier, having originally left Greece, in order to be reunited with her family, as a fifteen-year-old in 1969.

Her family's emigration the previous year had come in the context of the widespread political persecution that followed the coup d'état of 21 April 1967, which had seen a far-right military junta take power in Athens.

Most notably, there were several memorable appearances on Jacques Chancel's recently launched Grand échiquier television variety show.

Paris became the focus of Angélique Ionatos' work, while her brother continues to make his career in francophone Belgium.

Although she set to music the texts of many writers, the modern poet whose work most frequently triggered her muse over more than four decades was the Nobel laureate Odysseas Elytis.

[13] In 2006 Angélique Ionatos and Katerina Fotinaki met each other at a "Sappho de Mytilène revival" show in Lausanne.

[15] Her voice he found warm but not heavy, and at the same time dramatic, with the charismatic presence of the great Mediterranean singers.