Alkistis Protopsalti, one of Greek song's most enduring voices across five decades, gave a career-spanning performance at Islington's candlelit Union Chapel.
Alkistis Protopsalti closed out the winter season in Islington on Friday 13 February 2026, giving a career-spanning Best Of performance inside the candlelit Union Chapel.
Born Alkistis-Sevasti Attikiouzeloglou in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1954 to Greek parents, she moved with her family to Athens at the age of six, part of the wider displacement of Greeks from Egypt during the 1950s. She has recorded professionally since 1975 and released sixteen studio albums, more than half of them reaching number one in both Greece and Cyprus. Her best-selling record, San Ifestio Pou Xipna, released in 1997, sold more than 100,000 copies and went double platinum in both countries. Her 2002 duet with the singer Antonis Remos, S’Agapo, topped the charts as well. Beyond music, she briefly held public office, serving as Greece’s Alternate Minister of Tourism in the caretaker government of 2015.
Modern entehno, literate Greek song set to orchestration, is the tradition she has carried longest, and a run of platinum and gold certifications spanning four decades has made her one of its most consistent chart presences, rather than a singer defined by one hit.
At Union Chapel, the deconsecrated Victorian church’s noted acoustics framed a set drawn from that catalogue, staged two days before Valentine’s Day and leaning into the romantic and nostalgic corners of her songbook, joined by six musicians and a guest performer.