Angélique Ionatos

Angélique Ionatos (Αγγελική Ιονάτου: 22 June 1954 – 7 July 2021) was a Greek singer, guitarist, and composer. Much of her focus was on setting and singing classical and modern Greek texts. She lived as a member of the Greek diaspora in France from 1981 or earlier, having originally left Greece, in order to be reunited with her family, as a fifteen-year-old in 1969. Her family's emigration the previous year had come in the context of the widespread political persecution that followed the Coup d'état of 21 April 1967, which had seen a far-right military junta take power in Athens. Between 1969 and 1981 she grew up with her parents and elder brother in Liège. Angélique Ionatos died in Les Lilas, near Paris, on 7 July 2021, at the age of 67. Angélique Ionatos was born in Athens, Greece. She would later describe herself to interviewers as "a sailor's daughter". Photis Ionatos, her elder brother (by approximately four years) is also a musician: Photis Ionatos is still based in Belgium. In 1972 she teamed up with her brother to issue her first French language recording. The disc, entitled "Résurrection", comprised a series of loosely political "chanson-style" songs. It won for the sibl...