Yanni has accumulated more than 40 platinum and gold albums, with international sales totaling over 25 million copies, including the 1997 double-platinum Tribute album, which sold more than a million copies within six weeks of its release, and 1994’s Live at the Acropolis, which has sold more than 7.5 million copies worldwide. After touring regionally with Minneapolis-based rock group Chameleon, he moved to Los Angeles and embarked on his solo career. PRIOR LAKE – JANU– Yanni, one of the most recognizable composers and performers of our time will perform in the Mystic Showroom at Mystic Lake Sunday, July 31, at 8 p.m.īorn Yiannis Chryssomallis, the boy who would one day become internationally known as Yanni spent his childhood in Kalamata, Greece, before coming to the Twin Cities to study psychology at the University of Minnesota.
