Aliki Katriou

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Aliki is a human with a love for singing in all its varieties, especially extreme vocals. A soprano, she started classical singing lessons at age 16, which she continues to this day. Realizing early on that classical technique couldn't produce some tones that interested her, Aliki took contemporary singing lessons in a variety of styles and eventually trained as a singing teacher. She has an extensive knowledge of classical technique, contemporary styles and extreme vocals. Since 2013, she has been teaching voice to students from around the globe in many different genres. 

Aliki is known as the vocalist in the critically acclaimed Greek metal project Desolate Plains, the lyricist and female voice for Tattered Pages - an international project hailing from Birmingham - and the lyricist and vocalist for her own band; Eight Lives Down.

As a graduate from one of the world's leading vocal studios, New York Vocal Coaching, Aliki continues on as a consultant by training their vocal coaches on vocal distortions, and is also the guest speaker Distortion Specialist at their Teacher Training courses. She continues to study as an advanced voice teacher with world-renowned authors Dr. Gillyanne Kayes and Jeremy Fisher of Vocal Process and has been asked to teach Master Classes on distortion at music schools in the US and the UK.

Constantly expanding her knowledge on voice, Aliki has completed the first tier of the vocal health course with Dr Jenevora Willams and the team from Vocal Health Education. She is in the process of completing the full three tiers.

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 Interviews, Podcasts, Chats 

"I love Humans, and I’m not talking about the primate species. ‘Humans’ is the new album by Extreme Metal band, Eight Lives Down. The band, formed by Greek-Kiwi vocalist, Aliki Katriou, released their debut album in September. We had the chance to chat with Aliki about her band’s new album and other things. We also listened to ‘Humans’ and wrote a review."

"A career switch can be of benefit fror a band when they discover that the start was not the solution for a successful career. London based EIGHT LIVES DOWN may have launched such a career switch when you compare their first EP ‘May Cause Death’ with the debut album ‘Humans’, that will be out on Septmeber 5Tth through the independent Cult Of Parthenope label. We tried to find out why and asked singer Aliki Katriou about the EP and the new album…"

All-Voice Media Podcast

"3 episodes with the great Aliki Katriou, best heavy metal distortion voice teacher in the game!
1. The Duchess of Distortion, the Goddess of Grit, Aliki Katriou, one of the best distortion technique singing teachers in the world, and frontbabe for Eight Lives Down. In this episode we have an exciting look into how Aliki became interested in singing and teaching, what it's like being a female metal singer (not easy) and where she finds inspiration on a daily basis.

2. Learn how to activate the Cricothyroids to sing like Kurt and Axl, how singing past the 5th octave makes you sound like a toilet bowl of death, and the first 2 of the 7 different kinds of rasp.
3. Deep dive on physiology, what Tibetan Throat Singing can teach you, why Aliki always makes nice with sound techs and the SM58, Death Core vs. Black Metal vs. Death Metal technique, overtones, and sweet, demonic UNDERTONES!

METAL FEMALE VOICES COMMUNITY MAGAZINE

Interview with Aliki from page 6!

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