Maria has been a backup vocalist for singer Vanessa Amorosi at the ARIA AWARDS, NRL Opening and Closing Games at the Olympic Homebush Stadium along with Hugh Jackman, Thelma Huston and Rick Price. She also has made some TV appearances with Vanessa on Molly Meldrum’s house Of Hits, Morning with Kerry Anne, Pepsi Charts, CH V and support act for the Savage Garden Tour 2000.

Having a Greek father and Italian mother, Maria was asked if she could sing Greek, the answer was no. She had been performing in various shows and until this point in time they were all in English.

Maria was asked by her agent to learn some Greek songs to support John Tikis for his Australian Tour. From then on she fell in love with the passion of the Greek songs and continued to learn more. Working with the Paradise band in Sydney she slowly built a name in the Greek community.

She has gone on and has been the support act for International Greek singers on the their Australian Concerts such as Anna Vissi, Lefteris Pantazis, Cristos Dantis,Vasilli Karra, Kondolazos, and many others.

She has been performing at Australia’s premier Greek night club, Kinisi Live for the last 3 years, in that time she also performed at Sydney’s Greek club Notes Live throughout 2007. Through this Maria has achieved a massive following and a great number of fans in both Sydney and Melbourne.

Over the past two years, Maria has been working on her First Album. She worked with Composer Theo Marantis a musician from Melbourne and Lyricist Michael Falaras from Sydney to produce 13 original Greek tracks. Maria also teamed up with ‘TOMMIROCK’ coming up with 2 hot English tracks for her album. The album has 15 tracks in total and varies in style, keeping the traditional Greek styles but mixing it in with music of today.

There are so many emotions that come alive when you discuss the Album with Maria, that you can only really understand her passion and love for singing when you see and hear her and feel the power of her performance.

Maria explains, “I feel at this stage in my life the CD couldn’t have come at a better time. I wanted to give something back to the people that have supported me. It is an album for all generations”.

Maria’s dedication and determination has allowed her to achieve what she has to date and the launch of her first Album will be one of many more successes.