Artemis Gounaki

Artemis Gounaki (Greek Aρτεμίς Γουνάκη) * April 7, 1967 in Munich is a Greek and German singer, vocal coach, songwriter, composer and arranger. She got even more publicity because of her appearance in several auditions TV- Shows, where she worked as a vocal coach and/or a judge. Gounaki's father was born in the island of Crete. She lives in Munich/ Germany, in Athens/ Greece and in Crete/ Greece and has one son.

Life

Artemis Gounaki is a vocal coach and has participated in various Popstars seasons on RTL II/ProSieben in German-, Greek- and Swiss- TV. Artemis is a vocal-producer and arranger (e.g. Bro'Sis, Preluders, Nu Pagadi, Overground, H-Blockx or Guano Apes).
She was singing, writing and composing for her band Illegal Aliens with Marco Minnemann, who is her former husband. Many of the bands had already reached Gold and Platinum status in Germany. Artemis supports the finalists and winners of Popstars in Switzerland and Greece.
Her work is not limited to TV shows. Artemis worked with many artists before her Popstars debut.
She worked with Henning Wehland on his voice for his bands' recordings "Fly Eyes" of his band H-Blockx. After that Artemis coached, arranged and produced the vocals of Sandra Nasic, singer of the famous Guano Apes for "Don't Give Me Names" and "Walking On A Thin Line" and was the steady tour coach and friend during their world wide tours ( 1998-2002).
In 2001, Artemis became the vocal coach of the German TV reality show "Popstars", which gave her an immense publicity, by selling over 1.500.000 copies of the debut album "Never Forget" of the winning band Bro'Sis within three days. She started to expand her work to different countries. In 2003 she moved to Athens, Greece to become the vocal coach of the Greek version of the popular show Popstars and to work on the vocal-production of the winning band Hi-5, created by this show.
During that time, she also worked on the German Popstars show, that took place in Orlando, Florida U.S. and found the two bands Preluders and Overground. After finishing that production, Artemis went to Greece to arrange and to produce the Christmas CD of Hi-5 "Mia Nihta San K'iafti".
Finishing this production, Artemis was one of the judges on the Greek TV Show "Eurostars". The show found Sakis Rouvas and sent him to the Eurovision-Song-Contest in 2004, where Rouvas finished in third place.
When she returned to Germany. Artemis coached, arranged and recorded the new Popstars- Band Nu Pagadi.

Artemis cooperates with music producers and musicians such as Greg Manning, Toni Cottura or Marc Mozart, Lou Bega, T.M.Stevens, Leslie Mandoki, Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen, Thorsten Brötzmann or Peter Ries and works for major record companies like Sony BMG or Universal Music, and many others.

She took a break for nine months to spend more time with her family.
In November 2005, Artemis started to study architecture at the Munich University and published a book she had written during her break called "Singen? Kann jeder!" (Everyone Can Sing) in October 2005.
Artemis returned to television with the show "Beste Stimme gesucht" (Best Voice Wanted) on KI.KA, a German TV channel for children, together with German Pop Idol Alexander Klaws and German singer Jeanette Biedermann. The show scouted for children with a talent for singing. Artemis started working very closely with Jeanette Biedermann during her Bad Girls Club Tour 2006. Artemis accompanied Jeanette on her tour as her voice coach.

Artemis' next TV project as vocal coach and a vocal-producer will be a Swiss Audition-Show called MUSICSTAR in Winter 2006/07. (Swiss Channel SF1)

TV

* 2001 - Popstars/ RTL2 Germany (Bro'Sis)
* 2003 - Popstars/ MegaTV Greece (Hi-5)
* 2003 - Popstars "Das Duell"/ PRO Sieben Germany (Preluders, Overground)
* 2004 - Eurostar/ NET Greece (Sakis Rouvas)
* 2004 - Popstars "Jetzt Oder Nie"/ PRO Sieben Germany (Nu Pagadi)
* 2005 - Die Burg/ PRO Sieben Germany
* 2005 - Kika Live/ KI.KA Germany
* 2006/2007 - Musicstar/ SF1 Switzerland

Books

* "Singen? Kann Jeder!" (Everyone Can Sing), Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-89602-680-1

Discography

Certifications

* 2004 - Gold for Nu Pagadi "Your Dark Side" (Album)
* 2004 - Gold for Nu Pagadi "Sweetest Poison" (Single)
* 2003 - Gold for Preluders "Girls In The House" (Album)
* 2003 - Gold for Preluders "Everyday Girl" (Single)
* 2003 - 3x Platinum for Hi-5 "Hi-5" (Album)
* 2003 - 2x Platinum for Hi-5 "Ksero ti zitao" (Single)
* 2003 - Gold for Hi-5 "Mia nihta san ki afti" (Album)
* 2002 - Gold for Guano Apes "Walking on a Thin Line" (Album)
* 2001 - Platinum for Bro'Sis "Never Forget" (Album)
* 2001 - 2x Platinum for Bro'Sis "I Believe" (Single)
* 2000 - Gold for Guano Apes "Don't Give Me Names" (Album)

External links

* [http://www.artemis-x.com Artemis Gounaki Official Webpage]
* [http://www.myspace.com/vocalcoachartemis Artemis Gounaki Official MySpace Site]
* Literature from and about Artemis Gounaki in German [http://dispatch.opac.d-nb.de/DB=4.1/REL?PPN=130412627 card index of German National Library]
* [http://www.musicstar.sf.tv/artikel.php?docid=20061101_artemis_videos&catid=musicstarsendungenartikel Vocal coaching on the official MusikStar webpage]
* [http://www.kika.de/fernsehen/a_z/k/kikalive/gaeste/gaeste_a_z/artemis_gounaki/index.shtml Artemis on Ki.KA]