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Borås, Västergötland, Sweden (1999 – present)

Helena Paparizou (Greek: Έλενα Παπαρίζου, born on January 31, 1982 in Borås, Västergötland, Sweden) is a Greek singer, born to Greek immigrant parents and was raised in Örgryte, Gothenburg.

Paparizou’s artistic talents and eagerness to excel became apparent very early, and she was soon involved in singing, dancing and acting-training in combination with her academic studies at school. At age 7, she started learning piano, ballet, and traditional dances. At the age of 14, Elena started her first band called “Soul Funkomatic” along with 3 Latin American kids. The group only played hip-hop music, and saved up money to record songs. Two years later by age 16, the band broke up and Helena was offered various proposals, but her mother said she was too young to leave home.

In 1998, 13 of her close friends died in a fire at a hip-hop party at a nightclub in Gothenburg that she had begged her mother to go to but was denied. After losing her friends, she decided to abandon singing, and she started classes at the Art Performing School where she studied theater, acting, television, and directing. In 1999, some DJ friends of her brother asked her to make a demo of Opa Opa. Elena told them that the lyrics are for a man, so she asked to sing it with childhood friend Nikos Panagiotidis (Νίκος Παναγιωτίδης).

Paparizou, determined to succeed and fulfill her dreams of being an entertainer, joined childhood friend and fellow Greek-Swede Nikos Panagiotidis, at the age of 17, to form Antique.
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