Greek singer Kostas Martakis was born on the May, 25th 1984 in Pirea (Greece). His father is from Mitilini city, and mother is greek-australian. Kostas wasn't only one child in the family, -he has elder sister Tina and younger brother Nikos.
In the childhood Kostas dreamt to become the basketball player and he even played in the basketball team. Later, on the relatives' advise, he decided to enter in fashion business.
From his childhood he's also fond of singing. He had beed attending the courses in the "Fame studio" for 2 months, and his dream came true - he became the participant of the tv-project "Dream show" (greek version of the "Star Factory"). He didn't recieved money awards, as he didn't win this show, but he entered in the top-5 finalists of the project, he left unforgettable impressions for people and got very important experience for himself. There he was mentioned by the most famous Greek manager of entertainment and offered the cooperation.
After he finished the tv-project Kostas seriously started to study professionaly to become the real showman. He spent one more year for studying vocal, choreography and actor' art. His first CD single "Πάντα Μαζί" ("Always together") was realized in 2006, which was in a big success and became gold on Cyprus.
At the same period Kostas for the first time performed with the live sound in Thessaloniki together with such famous greek stars as Stamatis Gonidis and Despina Vandi.
In December 2006 he performed in the "Rex" club in Athens with Despina Vandi and Giorgos Mazonakis. At the same month he opened the big beneficent concert with Despina in OAKA.
In June 2007 Kostas realized his debut album «Ανατροπή» («Inversion»), which was composed by the group of the most famous Greek composers and poets, that was the great achievement for the up-coming singer. The album became the real gift for his fans and the nice-opening for the rest listeners. There isn't only romanticism in his songs, but also calm wisdom which we can find in Kostas besides his young age. The album had a great success. «Ναι» («Yes»), «Ανατροπή» («Inversion»), «Ασ'τους να λένε» («Let them talk»), «Όνειρα μεγάλα» («Big dream»), «Θέλ? επειγόντ?ς διακοπές» («I want holiday immediately») и «Γι' αυτό χειροκροτήστε την» («Therefore applaud to her») – these are the names of the Kostas' hits which are on air in all Greek radio stations with popular music.
July, 2007 Kostas held his first solo-concert in the club Kastra (Paphos, Cyprus) infront of 7500 viewers. At the same period he got MAD TV award as the best debut of the year, performed in the best Greek clubs, cooperated with famous singers.
At summer 2007 Kostas went to Latvia for participating in the international young singers competition "New Wave stars 2007", which is held in Jurmala every year. 14 countries from Eastern Europe and 4 other countries - Greece, Italy, Germany and the USA took part in the contest. Among 18 participants Kostas got the 2nd place in televoting, the 5th in jury voting, and won the "Jurmala audience's choice" award. This contest became the bright event in his life and he's extremely happy about that fact that he's liked by the audience.
November 2007 Kostas came to Moscow, where he conluded the contract with SONY BMG Russia. Soon his debut album will be realized on the Eastern Europe markets. Also during his visit the capital of Russia Kostas shot the video clip for his song «Όνειρα μεγάλα» («Big dream»). It was for the first time in history when Greek singer shot video in the historical Moscow sights!
December 2007 Kostas was proclaimed by the ERT TV Channel as one of three possible candidates for representing Greece on the Eurovision song contest 2008 (ESC). His opponents were Chrispa and Kalomoira. Kostas' song for the ESC called "Always and forever" was presented on the February, 6th together with the rest participants songs. On the final show of the ESC election Kostas got the 2nd place. In spite the fact that he lost the chance to represent Greece on the ESC, in March 2008 he realized CD single "Always and forever" in which 5 versions of the song on English and Greek langauges were conluded. Summer 2008 Kostas recorded Russian version for the song "Always and forever", which is called «Я клянусь, я буду с тобой» ("I swear I will be with you"). The premiere of the song was in Vitebsk (Belarus) where Kostas went as a guest of the "Slaviansky bazar" festival. Later Kostas visited Jurmala and performed with his Russian song on the Night pop-disco concert of the New Wave stars 2008.
Also Kostas successfully cooperates with the Bulgarian singers. He's already had the duo performances with Graffa in spring 2008 (song "Every breath you take" by Sting) and Desisslava (song "Mercy") on the MAD TV 2008 music awards.
