Rodos Panagiotou
Stelios Papazoglou
Trio Smiles!
Trio Smiles! Is the name of the Latin Jazz, Brazilian trio formed in
2003 by Stelios Papazoglou on guitar, Andreas Rodosthenous on electric bass and
Rodos Panagiotou on drums. It was in Rotterdam (the Netherlands) that Stelios,
Andreas and Rodos met and started playing together. Rodos and Andreas used to
play together for many years before,
since they are both from Limassol, Cyprus. Stelios is from Kavala,
Greece. All three of them studied jazz and Latin music in the Rotterdam's
Conservatory where they could play among other kinds of music, jazz, Brazilian,
salsa and Latin jazz.
Trio Smiles! Played in Rotterdam, among other places, in the “Doelen”,
the “Dizzy Jazz café”, the “Zuid Plein (south area) theater” and also in the
Haag in the “Pater latin bar” and in Amsterdam in different places.
This summer 2008, they feature in their
trio a very talented singer.
Magda Mendes is a Portuguese
singer living in Holland since 2002. She studied Jazz/ Latin Jazz at the
Rotterdam’s Conservatory where she got in contact with musicians from Holland
and abroad. Involved with several World Music orientated projects, she found
her own way to mix several styles, like Brazilian Jazz and Fado from her
country.
This singer “feels at home” working with
this trio, once the musical connection is as easy as it is very strong. The
music they make together travels beyond geographical barriers, and takes the
people with them into their musical common language.
Magda Mendes
Andreas Rodosthenous