Eleni Vitali (Ελένη Βιτάλη) is a Greek popular singer and composer of Romani origin,[1] active from the early 1970s.
Eleni Vitali was born in Athens on September 19, 1954 into a musical Hellenized-Gypsy family and was raised as a child living the typical Gypsy lifestyle by traveling across the country.
Her father, Takis Lavidas, played the santur (a hammered dulcimer) and her mother, Lucy Karageorgiou, was a singer at festivals.
She made her first performance in 1973, alongside Sotiria Bellou interpreting the song "Nobody can be patient" (Greek title "Δεν περισσεύει υπομονή", A. Kounadi-B.
In 1989, Eleni Vitali recorded her "Opposite Balcony" and in 1993 "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" in its own lyrics and music by entering into a period of maturity, which in the year 2000 with the album "Spotlight" recapitulates.