Katerine Duska
Katerine Duska is a Canadian-Greek singer/songwriter currently residing in Athens, Greece. Her critically acclaimed debut album ‘Embodiment’ was released in 2015 by EMI/ Universal Records and the EP ‘Embodiment Revisits’ followed in 2017.
Born and raised in Montreal, Canada, by Greek parents, she was introduced to a wide range of musical influences from pop, soul and r&b to folk and classical music. Her own musical style has been described as indie-pop meets neo-soul and her trademark soulful rasp as something reminiscent of Amy Winehouse. Katerine first emerged in the Greek music scene in 2013 with her hit song “One in a Million” along with her hit cover of “Do I Wanna Know” by the Arctic Monkeys, reaching over 1,5 million views on Youtube. Her debut album “EMBODIMENT” was released in 2015 by MINOS-EMI. She has since then performed in numerous high profile venues in Athens (Megaron- Athens Concert Hall, Technopolis & the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center), as well as in several European cities.
She has appeared in many music festivals in Greece, such as Rockwave Festival with Craig Walker (former Archive), Meteora Music Festival & Resistance Festival, alongside Yasmine Hamdan. In September 2017, Katerine was one of the 300+ artists to participate in Sofarsounds’ and Amnesty International’s global festival ‘Give a Home’, in support of the world’s refugees. In 2016, she supported LP ‘s concert in Athens as well as Imam Baildi’s show at the O2 Academy Islington, in London. She has also collaborated with British artist Tom Baxter. In 2017 EMBODIMENT REVISITS was released: a limited 10inch vinyl with 3 alternative recordings of her singles Fire Away, Slow and Somebody, plus a cover of the song “Apo Mesa Pethamenos” (“Dead on the inside”), a composition of Attik, which is the first song she recorded in Greek. In 2018 she appears in “18+”, the multi-artist best of album of Stathis Drogosis, a contemporary Greek singer songwriter, with the cover of the song “Tha Perasoun I Meres” (“Days Will Pass”) Nescafe Gold Canada featured her song “Fire Away” in their official annual campaign.
She represented Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv with “BETTER LOVE”, a song that was composed and written by Katerine, Leon of Athens and Dave Sneddon. Katerine Duska is a recording artist of Minos-EMI/Universal.