Lamia Bèdioui is a Tunisian singer and story teller, living in Greece since 1992. She studied Economics at the University of Tunis where she gained her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree. She studied music and singing at the Tunis Conservatory and at the National Conservatory of Athens.

 

From 2002 until 2010, she participated at the Vocal Art’s Workshop of the Greek baritone Spyros Sakkas. She has also attended many body movement, voice training and theater workshops. Since 2021, she is attending vocal technique courses with mezzo soprano Irini Tsirakidou at the Korydallos Municipal Conservatory.

 

In 2013, she graduated from the story-telling School of Athens (Center for Myth and Fairy Tales studies). She studied and presented the theme of medieval erotic stories in the Arab world for her degree. Since then, she has been performing in storytelling and teaching in workshops.

 

Her professional career in singing started in 1995. She performs songs, narrates and improvises on the basis of traditional cultures of the Mediterranean countries and beyond. Her approach is part of a dialogue of cultures. She has collaborated with many Greek and international singers, musicians and performers of the Ethnic and Jazz music scenes such as Ross Daly, Jon Balke, Wouter Vandenabeele, El jazzeera, Estudiantina Orchestra, Nikos Kipourgos…

 

She is collaborating with the singer Savina Yiannatou since 1997 until now with concerts and events all over Greece and abroad.

 

She has participated in the creation of several music albums:

Songs of the Mediterranean, Terra Nostra, In Gedeonis Area, Krotala, Basse classe, Metamorf, Watersong….

 

Her debut album “Fin’ Amor” in collaboration with the performer and percussionist Solis Barki was released in 2006. A work based on the primordial relationship between voice and percussion  

In April of 2015, she released under her own label LBedioui Music Production, her second album “Athamra” with songs from countries around the Mediterranean.

In October of 2019, she also re-released “Fin’ Amor”, with new recordings, mixing and mastering.

 

She frequently appears before the public in music scenes and venues in Athens and all over Greece as well as in international music festivals ( Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Cyprus, Tunisia, France, Turkey, Portugal, Sweden, Norway, Luxembourg, Switzerland... ) . She has also participated as a performer and singer in theater productions and modern dance performances amongst which are : Maria Panoutsou, Natasha Zouka, Marina Mergou, Alessandra Maioletti, Ermira Goro and more …