Marina Satti

About

" A blend of Greek, Balkan and Middle-East cultures with a twist "

The Greek/Sudanese artist Marina Satti draws from contemporary pop, Arabic, Balkan, hip-hop and jazz influences to create an experimental re-imagining of traditional and classic sounds, transcending musical boundaries and bringing something new to the table.

Onstage, she’s accompanied by Fonέs, a female polyphonic group that she created in 2016. And there, as well, Marina brings out her multilevel theatrical and performance talents, as well as her musical and cultural wealth, beyond specific genre or time, whilst investing on pop aesthetics. Her much-anticipated debut album, ‘Yenna’ (literally meaning ‘birth’), will be dropping in late May 2022, but lately she’s shared many shining gems, like ‘Yiati Pouli m’, a retelling of an old traditional Thracian Greek song of mourning and loss, and ‘Pali’, the first cut from her upcoming release, where Marina speaks about falling in love without losing independence.

Following the success of ‘Koupes’, a dreamy cover on an old rembetiko song, her smash-hit single ‘Mantissa’ (meaning ‘fortune teller’) introduced her to the world and led her to sign an international record deal with Universal Music Berlin. 

The astonishing folk-pop street-style art of the track was a reminder that folk music isn’t just a style; it actually means interpreting the world around you and forging connections with others. Marina taps into unfamiliar instruments to ask questions about tradition, heritage and evolution, suggesting that we should look to the past to help unlock the present. And perhaps, her greatest achievement is that her musical work sounds both emotionally familiar and yet somehow unique, reaching through centuries of tradition and geographical divide to connect on a deeper human level.