Theodora Athanasiou is born in Athens. She is a graduate of the Department of Primary Education, University of Patras.
Her musical career began when at the age of six started working as a self-taught on bouzouki and later on folk guitar and baglama, by participating in school bands.
By the age of 19 she started working as a musician in nightclubs and in the last six years she deals systematically with the study of the Greek musical tradition of the East in lute and yayli tambur, with Evgenio Voulgaris as her teacher.
She completed a five-part course in Greek folk music and instrumentation at the Municipal Conservatory of Patras, while has attended seminars on other musical traditions of the East (Persian rantif last year, Afghan Rabab), at musical workshop “Labyrinth”.
She studies Byzantine music with Dimitris Galanis and Emmanuel Dalaras. Has attended singing lessons placement and speech production with director Maria Panoutsou and has played in theatrical performances, while the last four years she gives voice lessons and teaches lute focusing on the Greek repertoire of East. Recently, in collaboration with Eugene Voulgaris, Dimitris Mystakidis and Apostolos Tsardakis, released the cd entitled "Apsilies.