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07/27/2019 – Philippakis, Foals – 2019 Truck Festival – Day 2 – Hill Farm – Oxford, UK – Photo Credit: Landmark / PR Photos
Birth name: Yannis Barnabas Emanuel Philippakis
Place of birth: Olympos, Karpathos, Greece
Date of Birth: 23 April, 1986
Ethnicity: * father – Greek * mother – Ashkenazi Jewish
Yannis Philippakis is a Greek-born singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is the lead vocalist, and a founding member, of British indie rock band Foals. He has also worked on solo projects.
Yannis was born in Karpathos, Greece, to a Greek father, and a South-African born Ukrainian Jewish mother. He moved with his family to South Africa, when he was four years old, and to Oxford, England, a year later, with his mother; he visted his father on the island Karpathos during the summers. Yannis was raised Greek Orthodox.