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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

"Yanni nominated as Best Live Performance of World Music!"

Lunas del Auditorio Awards

Yanni will be walking the red carpet and giving a special performance at the ceremony. Ming, Samvel, and Jason will be accompanying his performance.

This is a wonderful honor. Good luck, Yanni!

Award ceremony: Wednesday, October 28th at the Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City.

The ceremony can be viewed on: Televisa Canal 2, TV Azteca Canal 13, Canal 11, and Canal 22.

It may also be shown on DirectTV, somewhere in the 400s channels this weekend. If you find the listing for it, please share it here. We're still trying to get broadcast information for you, but you guys are often better and finding things than we are!

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YANNI IS BACK !!

Yanni has joined forces with the Oscar/Grammy award winning producer, Ric Wake, to create new music and discover extraordinary vocal artists! Yanni and Ric's goal is to collaborate with prodigy singer/songwriters and put them in the most creative environment possible to reach their full potential. Yanni-Wake Entertainment is his newly formed venture with fellow Grammy and Oscar winning producer/songwriter, Ric Wake. This exciting enterprise will not only continue to create superb music, but it will also develop talented new artists, compose music for films and be involved in movie and television production. Yanni Wake Entertainment has signed Nathan Pacheco, Chloe, Ender Thomas and Leslie Mills.There are a lot of exciting things ahead for Yanni. Check back to www.Yanni.com for tour and new music updates. There are plans in the works for international (including the USA) appearances in 2010 and 2011 as well as new compositions from Yanni.


YANNI'S CAREER HIGHLIGHTS


-Yanni Live at the Acropolis (Second Best Selling Music Video of all time, Has sold more than 10 million copies)

-Yanni has had global sales of over 20 million albums, resulting in more than 35 Gold and Platinum album awards

-The Tribute album reached platinum status in the U.S. within five weeks of its release, and has surpassed double platinum status ( 2.5 million copies sold). The video has surpassed double platinum status.

-Reflections of Passion (1990) went double platinum in the U.S. and stayed at the top of Billboard's Adult Alternative Chart for a record-breaking 47 consecutive weeks.

-Sold out ten consecutive concert dates at Radio City Hall, New York.

-Sold out five concert shows at Mexico's Auditorio Nacionale.

-Yanni became the number one selling western artist in India, reaching platinum status following the airing of the Acropolis video.

-His compositions have been included in all Olympic Games television broadcasts since 1988 and his music was featured during the opening ceremonies of the 1996 Summer Olympics, the 1998 Winter Games and the 2002 Winter Games. Additionally, he composed "Fanfare" for the World Cup 2002 soccer tournament in Seoul, Korea .

-His more recent tour, Yanni Voices: Live in Concert, in 2009 was a big success. Touring all over North America with sold out shows including Radio City Music Hall and full houses throughout Mexico. The tour was nominated for the prestigious Lunas del Auditorio award and was in support of Yanni's Mexican chart topping release: Yanni Voces(CD) and Yanni Voices (CD).Yanni Voces reached #1 on the Mexican Pop Charts and #2 on the over all Mexican Music Charts. A recent DVD release of Yanni Voices: Live in Concert reached Amazon's number one best seller list within the first week of sales and was a fundraising success for PBS.