Yannis Philippakis

Yannis Philippakis

Yannis Philippakis performing at Roskilde Festival 2011 with Foals.
Background information
Birth name Yannis Barnabas Emanuel Philippakis
Born (1986-04-23) 23 April 1986
Karpathos, Greece
Origin Oxford, England
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Website www.wearefoals.com
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Yannis Philippakis (born 23 April 1986) is the lead singer and guitarist of the British indie rock band Foals.

Early life

Born to a Greek father and a South African-born Ukrainian-Jewish[1] mother (Renee Hirschon),[2] Philippakis left Greece with his mother when he was five years old.[3] His father taught him traditional folk songs and dances.[3] He was raised in the Greek Orthodox religion.[4]

Education

Philippakis was educated at Magdalen College School before reading English Literature at St John's College, Oxford. He dropped out before taking a degree.

Career

Music

Foals

Philippakis formed Foals in 2005 with friend and former Youthmovies frontman Andrew Mears after the break-up of his former band The Edmund Fitzgerald, which also featured his Foals bandmate, drummer Jack Bevan.

Other musical projects

In a BBC 6 hub session interview, Philippakis expressed his desire to write a 'ballet with beats'.

Intentions to develop his Bins Are For Bombs project with former Foals and Youthmovies member Andrew Mears appear static, but may be rekindled at some point in the near future.

Yannis produced the track "Wolf" on Trophy Wife's 2011 EP Bruxism.[5]

Other

He performed as an actor in an adaptation of Marguerite Duras' Moderato Cantabile, directed by Alexander Zeldin.

TV appearances

Individually

With Foals

Albums

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