Giorgos Sampanis

Giorgos Sabanis (Greek: Γιώργος Σαμπάνης, born 15 May 1983) is a Greek singer-songwriter and athlete. He was the runner in the segment honouring of all previous Olympiads, at the 2004 Summer Olympics opening ceremony. Giorgos Sabanis is an athletics national champion at 100 m, with 14 Pan-Hellenic gold medals and other individual distinctions. After leaving his career as an athlete, he became one of the most famous Greek performers.

Biography Early years Giorgos Sabanis was born and raised in Athens, Greece. He has three siblings. His parents divorced when he was only six years old. He started playing music when he was 13 years old and created a band called "Fasma". They were singing and writing songs, one of them was "To Fili Tis Zois" which was performed by Helena Paparizou many years later. Giorgos studied playing guitar in a musical school, in Athens. In March 2008, he presented his first full album titled Haramata ("Dawn"). All of his songs are written by him, while Spyros Lambros' children choir contributed in one of Sampanis' first songs "Ena Fos Anoihto" ("A Light Open"). That same years he composed several songs for the album Vrisko To Logo Na Zo for Paparizou's.

In autumn 2012 Sabanis released the album Den Eimai Iroas ("I'm Not a Hero). The album is full of massive hits – "Ora Miden" ("Hour 0"), "Mono An Thes Emena" ("Only If You Want Me"), "Mi Milas" ("Don't Talk"), "O,ti Kai Na Eimai" ("Whatever I am") and "Den Eimai Iroas".

In June 2013 "Den Eimai Iroas" was certified gold. A week later he won the award for "Best Video Clip Pop/Rock" with the song "Ora Miden" at the MAD Video Music Awards 2013. Parallel with his songs, Sabanis makes songs for many other popular singers Despina Vandi, Nikos Oikonomopoulos, Katy Garbi, Antonis Remos and Peggy Zina.

In 2014 Sabanis released his fifth studio album Mono Ex Epafis ("Only Without Contact"). This is the first album to have platinum sales. In 2016 Giorgos Sabanis won for second time the award for "Best Video Clip Pop/Rock" with the song "Prin Peis S'Agapo" ("Before You Say I Love You") at the MAD Video Music Awards 2016.

The great success of the Sabanis comes in 2016 with the album Logia Pou Kaine ("Words That Burn"). The album was certified four times platinum with sold 50,000 copies. Giorgos Sabanis released his latest studio album on 1 April 2019, called Paraxena Demenoi ("Strangely Intertwined").

Personal life From 2014 to 2016, Sabanis had been in a relationship with Serbian-Greek model Anna Prelevic, who is Bane Prelevic's daughter. Since 2022, Sabanis has been in relationship with Greek model Ioanna Sarri.

Discography

Studio albums Haramata (2008) Meres Pou De Sou Eipa S' Agapo (2009) Mistirio Treno (2011) Den Eimai Iroas (2012) Mono Ex Epafis (2014) Logia Pou Kaine (2016) Paraxena Demenoi (2019)

CD singles Kapou Allou (2007)