Marlain

Marlain’s professional background is so varied it would be astute to call her a Chameleon. Her background encompasses cultural references from all the countries she’s lived in: Venezuela, Belgium, Cyprus, the US, the UK and Greece. Only a very restless mind can produce an education that takes you from a Biochemistry degree to Musical Theatre studies in some of the most prestigious schools in the world (Royal Academy of Music, London and the Boston Conservatory). So what next? You get chosen among 5,000 hopefuls to perform at the Edinburgh Festival with the respected National Youth Music Theatre, you represent Cyprus at the Eurovision Song Contest and you tour the UK and Europe with a number of productions culminating with a performance at La Scala in Milan in front of 11,000 people. Are you happy with that? Not quite, so the journey continues with performances from the US (Berklee Performance Centre) to Europe (Festival Rose D’Or – France, Switzerland and Ireland) and back on home turf with the Cyprus State Orchestra. The next step takes you into the belly of the beast with a major record deal (Warner Music Greece) and 3 albums (1 platinum and 1 gold) with pop act HI-5 produced from the internationally known POPSTARS programme. The last few years have focused all that energy and musical performance experience and have seen Marlain perform all over Europe, Australia and South Africa with mainstay Greek artists like Vassili Papakonstantinou and Michalis Hadzigiannis (Greece’s top selling artist). As her own songwriting has come into its own, she has picked up a Best Song award at the Pan Music Festival in Serbia and has been nominated as Woman of the Year at the Madame Figaro Awards (established women’s title in Greece). The Chameleon Marlain at some point decided she needed an identity, chose her true passion and established herself as a band frontperson within the rock/metal genre. Currently she is fronting UK band Ascending Dawn, an ambient melodic progressive metal band (influences include: Tesseract, Karnivool, Tool, 30 Seconds to Mars), whose debut album 'Coalesce' released in Nov 2014 to rave reviews. A newbie to New York, her solo music is currently formulating as ‘MARLAIN’ and playing live in various venues around the city accompanied by fantastic local musicians. On the other side of the coin lies the professional Actor and Voice Over artist in her. From Shakespeare to Musicals, West End to Off Broadway original works, Audio books to Disney Voice Over Dubbing, creating interesting characters is a life long pursuit. Theatre credits include: Off Broadway Going Once Laughing Twice (Heidi Hoe), My Wife in a Chador (Abeera) West End: Lautrec. Tour/International: Saturday Night Fever (Stephanie Mangano), Hair (Dionne), Othello (Desdemona), Elegies... (Judith), Annie (Miss Hannigan). Each professional vantage point has a resume of its own: Solo Artist, Band frontperson, Session Singer, Actor, Voice Over Artist and Songwriter and Marlain hopes to continue this diverse ‘madness’ for years to come. Please email for CV full listings. Professional Singer / Songwriter / Voice Over / Actor. Original Artist and Currently fronting prog melodic metal band @AscendingDawn and Lez Zeppelin