我们先看看雅派(Yapple)对雅尼的介绍
雅尼，全球闻名的演奏家、作曲家，两度被格莱美奖提名，其作品在过去十年中一直是奥林匹克运动会广播音乐的最爱。在连续完成了雅典卫城，中国紫禁城，印度泰姬陵音乐会后，终于推出了最新专辑“If I Could Tell You” - 一次直击心灵的音乐旅程。
雅尼，1954年生于希腊卡拉玛塔的一个风景独特的海滨村庄，五岁时就发现了自己的音乐才能。“我非常喜爱音乐并常常弹钢琴，但我拒绝接受正规的钢琴教育。我的父亲明智地鼓励我大胆尝试。当我不想上钢琴课时，他便说，‘好，想什么时候弹就什么时候弹，你想弹什么就弹什么吧’。当时我就是这么做的，现在也是如此。”
最初，雅尼曾立志成为一名临床心理学家，18岁的时候，他被美国明尼苏达州的一所大学接收，移居美国并主修心理学。然而，毕业后雅尼却选择了他钟爱的音乐事业。“我决定用一年的时间去尝试。我参加了一只名为“chameleon”的摇滚乐队，并在一些夜总会进行演出。整整一年我沉浸于音乐当中，我从没感到过生命是如此令人愉悦。就这样，我找到了值得我用一生去做的事。”
雅尼专心致志于音乐，从中感到无比满足，尽管成功似乎还很遥远.“我取得成功用了很长的时间，尽管很多时候连生计都难于维持，但我并不在乎。创作是一件非常快乐的事.创作的过程是我人生的最大乐事之一.”
与Linda Evans在Oprah Winfrey show中登场是雅尼一生的巨大转折点.之后雅尼的事业蒸蒸日上.从纽约Radio City Music Hall的演出开始，他的音乐会通过电视先后在65个国家播放，1998年的"Tribute"在全美巡演总排行中位列第二.但那些不堪回首的日子却教会雅尼许多东西，使他一直受益至今.“回顾过往，我了解到我学到了许多准则，让我可以集中意志以使创作顺利进行.没有人会教给你这些，只有用心体验生活才能获得.”
偶尔，雅尼会在工作室呆上几个星期而写不出任何东西。为何创造力时而像火山喷发般势不可当，时而又坚若磐石？雅尼对此产生了浓厚的兴趣。“当我在创作某些曲子时，我对此有了进一步的了解。我了解到创造和判断是相对立的，当你在创作时判断，你就会不在状态，被创造力拒之门外。也就是说，当你判断时，最佳创作时间已过去了。”雅尼并不相信“创造力障碍”之说。“‘创造力障碍’完全是一种构想出的东西。它并不存在。创作完全是一种心境，当你的确置身其中时，灵感根本不会枯竭。”人们常犯的错误是误以为创造力遥不可及，其实它就来自内心深处。为了和内心深处的创造力接触，雅尼学着去封闭外界。“你必须摆脱外界干扰。关掉电视和收音机，别去接电话，也别管门铃。对我而言，与外界隔离非常有益。过去，我要几个星期的时间才能进入创作状态，而如今，六个小时就足够了。”
虽然出生于希腊，雅尼却认为地点与灵感无关。“你不必在高山之巅俯瞰风景，也无需在草地上久坐。说真的，我最钟情于黑暗。我有很多作品都是在地下室完成的。那里没有窗户，很暗，也很静。灵感总能到来。”
雅尼在创作时不理睬任何事物。“我告诉我的朋友们，即使核弹爆炸也别打扰我。”雅尼当然知道与世隔绝容易被西方文化误解，“这看起来是反潮流的，我记得当我开始这样做的时候，我的朋友都认为我非常古怪。但今天他们已了解，创作时的我和平时的我没有两样。虽然当初我花了不少功夫去说明，但他们今天都很能理解我了。”
对雅尼而言，这种忠于内心的创作方式是他音乐生涯所不可少的。“我认为如果你全身心地投入某一事物，体验这内心之旅，你就会深深地沉浸于其中以致令生活向你展露它的本质。当我作曲时，我考虑的不是我在“作曲”。音乐是一种用来探索我内心世界的媒介。”
雅尼对音乐始终保持着无限的热情。“音乐是一种难以形容的语言－－它越过了正常的逻辑思维，直接向人们的心灵倾诉。因此我不喜欢在我的作品中加入明确的唱词。对我而言，必须考虑的事就是忠实于情感。我尽全力去表现事实。我要传达的是我的生活感受和那些对我非常重要的事物。”
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再看看经常可以看到的一段关于雅尼的介绍
人们把雅尼(YANNI)称作是一个用音
乐讲述生活的人。从他的身上可以感到古老
希腊的浪漫诗意与年轻美国的奔放现代的融
合。Yanni 的作品将高雅的古典交响乐与绚
丽的现代电声乐巧妙地结合起来。他曾说过：
“我的目标是用感情与人们沟通，我捕捉到
了生活的感受并把它溶于音乐之中，音乐将
会给听众带来希望的撞击。”
Yanni出生在希腊南部的一个海滨小镇。
少时因为家境不好，无法受到正规有序的音
乐教育，但这并不能抑制他与生俱来的音乐
天赋的成长。他可以不需要任何谱子而仅凭
超人的记忆，准确地记下听过的任何音乐中
的每一个音符。
雅尼曾为许多广告、电视片制作配乐（
完美的爱人）《I Love You Perfect》是19
89年美国电视网电视长片，雅尼承袭他一贯
的清新风格，为整部电视片营造出浪漫动人，
宽阔自由又略带伤感的乐风，完美呈现出剧
情的情境转折及剧中人物的悲喜心绪。他擅
长用电子合成技术将古典音乐以现代人的视
角做重新诠释。在繁忙喧闹的快节奏生活之
中，偷得半日闲来聆听Yanni的音乐， 也许
可以找寻到一份久违了的轻松和休闲。
作为一个拥有独特创作方式的音乐人，
Yanni 不愿被纳入任何流派，他独创着一般
魅力独具的音乐潮流。
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官方网站的介绍应该准确权威些
A Glimpse Into Yanni's Life and Career
He was born in a picturesque village that no one ever gave thought to leaving, and he's now known in every corner of the globe. Yanni is, without a doubt, a musical phenomenon, one of those rare artists whose music defies borders and boundaries - whose music speaks to people of all races, all nations. And there is more than ample evidence to support such statements.
How many artists have become the favored composer of every Olympic broadcast for the past decade? Sold-out Radio City Music Hall for ten dates? Played in the shadow of the Taj Mahal, the Forbidden City and the Parthenon? Toured China and more than twenty other nations? Had a TV special seen in 65 countries by half a billion people, was one of the top fundraising artists for PBS, and released what became the #2 best-selling music video of all time? Mounted the #1-ranked concert tour for 1998, and #2 for the entire year even though he did not tour for the second half?
Yanni has always charted a solitary and distinctive path. A champion swimmer and self-taught pianist with the gift of perfect pitch, he left the comforts of Kalamata, Greece, on the spectacular shores of the deep blue Mediterranean, and then began to fashion his own kind of American success story, later to become an international success story.
After graduating from the University of Minnesota with a B.A. in psychology, after trading the Grecian sunshine for frosty winters, he would seek a life in music, though he could not read a note and wrote wholly original works that, then and now, defy categorizing. From the beginning, he operated with a simple creed: a faith in hard work and keeping an open mind.
Yanni's first Grammy-nominated album was Dare to Dream (1992), which produced the vocal single "Aria," popularized by an award-winning British Airways commercial. His following album, In My Time, a gentler collection of piano-focused pieces, was also nominated for a Grammy Award and attained Platinum status. In 1994 Yanni achieved a personal triumph when he returned to his Greek homeland and recorded an album at the 2,000-year-old Herod Atticus Theatre in Athens. The result, Yanni: Live At The Acropolis, would be a sensation. It has almost continuously remained on the charts since its release, sold more than seven million copies worldwide, earned more than 35 platinum and gold albums, and risen to becoming one of the best-selling music videos of all time.
How to follow the unprecedented success of Live At The Acropolis? By becoming the first major Western Artist ever to perform and record at India's Taj Mahal and China's Forbidden City, resulting in the multi-platinum album Tribute. This is an artist who invested millions of dollars into the project before a single sound was recorded, whose organization mounted a near biblical effort with the regional of Uttar Pradesh to improve roads and build two bridges in order that the flood plains surrounding the Taj Mahal could be transformed for three historic concerts beneath one of the world's greatest wonders. While allowing India's citizens to see a musical performance in front of the country's signature structure, Tribute ultimately led to three million dollars in donations to a Taj preservation fund. The recording of Tribute proceeded to China, where Yanni staged a new historic feat at another of the world's great architectural achievements, The Forbidden City. Between India and China, Yanni played to a collective audience of 250 million people. In 2000 Yanni released his first studio album in seven years, If I Could Tell You, an introspective and deeply personal project which came in the wake of a two-year sabbatical, a move to the east coast of the U.S., and other changes which refocused his life and his life's work.
Yanni is an artist that crosses all demographics in his appeal. Recently he returned to PBS with a new television special, Live At Royal Albert Hall, London, offering not only a spectacular concert appearance in this historic venue, but also the first glimpse into his family home in Greece and recording studio in Florida.
In February 2003, Virgin Records released Ethnicity, his 13th album and third on Virgin. Extending the "One World, One People" philosophy that has been the hallmark of his career, Ethnicity offers an upbeat collection of tracks that pulse with the rhythms and voices of cultures around the globe. Its instrumentation is equally diverse: from the aboriginal depth of the Australian didgeridoo … to the haunting tone of the Armenian duduk … to Celtic-flavored violin … to the percussive plunk of the Indian tabla … the album brims with international flavor. "Many of the world's cultures and musical genres are represented on this album. It has a lot of ethnic color - in other words, it has ethnicity," says Yanni. "Ethnicity has to do with race and culture, and - in the way I use it for this album - the color and beauty of a multicultural society."
One element distinguishing Ethnicity from previous albums is the extensive use of human voices, not only solo arias and group chants, but also bona fide lyrics, a rare departure for the artist. "The Promise," for example, is an adaptation of an earlier composition, "Secret Vows," featuring lyrics from longtime friend Pamela McNeill and soulfully sung by Alfreda Gerald, a member of Yanni's Tribute tour. The album's final track reflects his own cultural heritage with a traditional Greek island folk song, "Jivaeri."
After a five-year break from touring, Yanni began an ambitious 2003/04 tour in March, 2003, opening at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, and featuring many of his new compositions and spotlighting the talents of solo musicians the world over along with his core band and symphony orchestra. The month before his tour opened, Miramax Books published Yanni's autobiography, a story that spans his fascinating and inspirational life: from his childhood in Greece to his college years in Minnesota to his success as an international music artist. The memoir, written in collaboration with David Rensin, also includes deeply personal details including his intense nine-year relationship with actress Linda Evans.
"I've been asked to write a book on many occasions but I was always focused first and foremost on my music and my career," said Yanni. "For the past few years I've had more of an opportunity to think deeply about life…I have tasted and felt so many things in my life and been welcomed all over the world. I have surpassed the wildest dreams I ever had as a child. I thought now was the right time to talk about it. What better reason to write a book? I am grateful to Miramax for this opportunity."
"Music," says Yanni, "is an incredibly direct language. It bypasses language and logic, and speaks directly to your soul." It is this notion that inspired the boy who began his musical career by giving recitals before family members in a seaside village, and who has since been communicating on a global level that few of his peers can match.
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写的很有意思 呵呵
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Yanni 雅尼
一个不仅在新世纪音乐乐界，甚至对于普通人都不会太陌生的名字。1997年那场空前的紫禁城音乐会，让中国的无数老百姓们认识了这位胡子像鲁迅、头发像郑伊健的希腊帅哥绅士（哈哈~~），同时也第一次接触了这种称为新世纪音乐的新鲜玩意儿。
与Vangelis一样，Yanni也是个多产的天才音乐家。他1954年诞生于希腊的Kalamata，高中后便前往美国Minnesota大学进修。在大学期间自学键盘、作曲、制作，并加入Private Music，尽展其音乐天赋，一鸣惊人，是Private Music有史以来销量最好的艺人。整个80~90年代，他一直活跃不息，发行过超过30张专辑，而且全都水平不俗。在AMG All Music网站上，仅五星满分的专辑他就有两张，四星以上的更近十张。无论这个评分可信度如何，这个傲视群雄的纪录都足以说明他在新世纪音乐界不可替代的重要地位。不仅如此，Yanni先后于英国皇家艾伯音乐厅（Royal Albert Hall）、雅典帕拉农神殿、埃及狮身人面像、印度泰姬陵、中国紫禁城等世界名胜古迹举办音乐会，这样的创举不仅在新世纪音乐界中是绝无仅有的，即使在其他领域也鲜有匹敌者。洋溢着魅力和感染力的音乐，令无数人如痴如醉，充分领略到新世纪音乐的美妙。
诚然，雅尼的音乐确实富于鲜明的表演性质和商业气息，因而一直受到评论家们的诟病，不过对于如此大规模的音乐会而言，这也是完全无可厚非的，况且Yanni是第一个人能将新世纪音乐音乐用如此平易近人的形式带到普通人面前，他对于新世纪音乐的推广普及的的确确起了不可估量的积极作用。
最后告诉大家两个非常夸张的消息：早在14岁，雅尼就参加了希腊国家游泳队，更打破了自由泳的希腊国家纪录，后来前赴美国明尼苏达大学时，学的还是心理学呢。这位大叔还真是人不可貌相呀！
参考资料：http://www.douban.com/group/topic/1053434/