Katerine Avgoustakis

Katerine Avgoustakis (Greek: Κατερίνα Αυγουστάκη) (16 September 1983) is a Greek-Belgian solo singer of Greek origin and winner of the 2005 Belgium Tv Show Star Academy. Katerine Avgoustakis made her singing debut as a member of the band Indiana in 2002. In 2005 Katerine entered Star Academy in Belgium in 2005 as a solo artist. She won Star Academy and was offered a contract @ Universal Music Belgium. Katerine's Avgoustakis's debut single "New Day", released in July 2005 in Belgium, peaked at #2 in the Belgian UltraTop 50 chart.Three months later, she received the TMF/MTV award for Best New National Artist. New day became also certified gold in Belgium. Her self-named debut album Katerine was released on 14 November 2005 in Belgium. The 2nd single Here Come All the Boys, was released in October 2005. In 2006 Katerine was nominated for 3 TMF/MTV Awards: Best pop music national, best female artist national and best music video national. She won best pop music and best female artist. The third single from her album Katerine, "Take Me Home", was released on 4 April 2006 in Belgium, with "Watch Me Move" as B-side. The next single "Catfight" was a quick follow-up. In 2007, Katerine was asked for the Belgian TV show Stars on Ice. She made it to the final, but came in second. In May 2007, she released "Live Wire", the first single from her upcoming second album and the song's music video was her first 'computer animated' video. A couple of months later she released "Don't Put It on Me" and then she and her Record Label reached a 'hiatus' and wanted to go in different directions which they did. Avgoustakis soon agreed to a new recording contract with CNR/Mostiko, which led to the single "Shut Your Mouth", with music different from her normal sounds. The single fared well in the charts charting in its first week at number three in the 'Ultratop 50'. In the following months, she released three more singles: "He's Not Like You", "Upon The Catwalk" (soundtrack from a Belgium TV channel '2BE''Topmodel") and "Ultrasonic" Ultrasonic even made it in the Canada Dance Charts on the 2nd place. This was the beginning of a international career. in March 2009 Katerine released a cover version of Justin Timberlake & 50 Cents "Ayo Technology". Not much later, the song was in the Polish top 5 and Avgoustakis had her first international hit and also first number one single. On August 8 2009 Katerine won the International Summer Hit award at Polish Sopot Hit festival with "Ayo Technology" Her last album ''The Real me'' was released in 2012. Not long after the release Katerine decided to take a break from the Music business. June 2016, Katerine makes her official come back with her new single ''Good to your heart''. Good to your heart is used by the Tv network FOX as the official network summer anthem. Katerine also has a new management team (Peter Muls/ Chez Gayle from Absolute P Entertainment) & releases ''Good to your heart'' through American indie Label Tropic Electric. Official Katerine Avgoustakis Facebookpage