Iro

Born in Patras, Greece, where she lived until the age of 20, Iro (Lechouriti) was practically born with an ear for music.

She had her very first encounter with music in early childhood, at home. Her parents loved music and her mother was a music teacher, who passed on the family musical “saga”, in a transfer of knowledge that Iro treasures as her inspiration. Making music is Iro’s ultimate goal in life and so she decides to take a break from her Nursing studies at university in order to fully devote herself to what seems to be her real calling. She first works in small clubs and music venues in Patras for three and a half years, but soon realises that singing is what she wants to do professionally, and with this in mind she move to the big city. At first, she works for two years in a club in the Athens suburb of Neo Psychiko, playing the piano, and singing Greek and foreign songs and later she turns her attention to working with an orchestra, wishing to grow as an artist and test her skill at composing more demanding musical arrangements, using more instruments. As a composer and a lyricist, Iro is currently a member of the Hellenic Society for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AEPI) and a member of the singers’ rights association ERATO, as a performing artist, while she is actively contributing to shaping younger artist generations, by teaching music theory and music at the Iasmos Higher Drama School.