Souzana was born and raised in Xanthi, where her parents are professors at the Democritus University of Thrace.  She is a graduate of the Mathematics Department of the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, majoring in Pure Mathematics. She has studied piano (from the age of four), guitar, advanced theory and solo, as well as jazz - song and theory. She is also involved in composing. She has given many concerts – of ethnic, classical and traditional music in Greece, Cyprus, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Italy, Ukraine, Luxembourg, Belgium, Turkey, Romania, USA, Nepal and elsewhere. Among her interests, dance makes up an important part – classical, traditional and afro-jazz, as well as theatrical performing. She speaks English, French and a little Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.  The study of the relationship between music and mathematics is one of the things which especially interests her, and her future ambition is to conduct further research in this area.

Eleni and Souzana Vougioukli began to explore world music very early  and went on  to experiment with the possibilities of the human voice as an innate musical instrument. With specific  emphasis on the original language and with appropriate respect for pronunciation and articulation of each individual  form, they sing in more than twenty languages and dialects, both a capella and/or  accompanied by piano, guitar and percussion instruments which they play themselves.

Their repertoire consists of  traditional songs of various ethnic groups: rebetika and traditional Greek songs in all dialects including that of the Greek speaking community of Southern Italy, Portuguese fado, Spanish, French, Italian, Romanian, Turkish, Arabic, Gypsy, Serb, American blues and jazz, Armenian, Sephardic, Pomak (a Slavic dialect of the Rhodopi mountain in N. Greece) and Bulgarian, as well as their own compositions. All their songs stand out for their power of expression and their diachronic qualities  both in terms of history and geography, whilst the basic focus of their research is the deeper roots of each song, which is the reason why  they spend a long time working on the songs before presenting them, so that they are able to discover aspects which are not immediately apparent on the first hearing. The long lasting quality of each song, that is, Tradition, the language and the music it carries with it on its journey through space and time, meets up with its modern exposition, its living present, as understood by the artists who  make their own transformations and adaptations to the sounds of the times, in their own particular interpretation.

They have worked with many well known artists including Maria Farantouri and AVATON at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Goran Bregovic, Thanassis Gaifyllia, Loudovikos Ton Anoyion, Psarantoni, Vasilis Lekka and Ilias Andriopoulos.  They have also performed for two years in Tatiana Lygari’s  music stage Treno sto Rouf, with great success.

Official website: http://www.vougioukli.gr/index.html