Yannis Zouganelis was born in Athens on February 3, 1956 and comes from Mykonos and Naxos. He is married to Isidora Sideris and together they have a daughter, Eleonora Zouganelis. The fact that both his parents were deaf had a great influence on his later course. He began his musical studies at preschool age in Agios Nikolaos Acharnon with the cantor professor Th. Theodorakopoulos in Byzantine music. At the Hellenic Conservatory he studied guitar with professors X. Ekmektsoglou and Costas Triandos and theory with Antiochos Evaggelatos. He continued at the National Conservatory of Athens with harmony, advanced theory and piano under the teaching of Patrikidis and Vokos. Composer Nikos Mamagakis played a decisive role in the development of his musical studies, who taught him orchestration and rhythm. In 1975, with a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture (for his work "Ten Byzantine Essays" small symphonic ensemble and mixed choir), he studied composition, orchestration and opera at the Munich Academy of Arts, from which he graduated with honors.

Filmography

• 2025I Have Something to Say — Film School Owner
• Kala Tha Paei Ki Afto — Τάσος Σωτηρίου
• 2024Minore — Father Chrysostomos, Original Music Composer
• 2023Finders 2: Pharaoh's Ring — Sailor 3
• 2022Τα Νεοκλασικά - Η Κόμισσα Της Φάμπρικας — Διοικητής
• Commandos and Dragons — Μπαμπά-Μπομπ
• 2020Halvai 5-0 — Dr. Genius
• 2016I apagogi — Abductor
• 2016The Bachelor — Aristidis
• 2015Fate
• 2015Lyssa kakia
• 2014Medea, Louder Than My Thoughts
• 2014Out of the blue — γιατρός
• 2014The Island of Secrets
• 2012Larisa Confidential — Manolis
• 2011Handset Type
• 2011Mia fora kai ena moro — Paraskevas
• 2011The Other Half — φίδι
• 20104 Black Suits — Kiriakos
• I Genia Ton 592 Euro — Πρόδρομος
• Working Woman
• Έχω ένα μυστικό...
• 2007Kiss Of Life — Τάσος
• Traces — medical examiner
• Φίλα τον Βάτραχό σου — Yannis
• 2006A Hero... in Rome — Tour guide
• 2006Mafiosi in the Aegean — Giorgos Botasis
• 2006Morally and Kicking — Harikleia's Son
• 2005The Heart of the Beast — Police Examiner
• 2005Καρδιακός Φίλος
• 2004And Wherever It Takes Us — Nikos
• 2004Here We Are! — Canteen Owner
• Tilebora — Βλάσσης
• 2003Varea anthygieina
• 2002The King — Giannis
• 2001Crying... Silicon Tears — Kavouras
• 2001Βασίλισσα μαϊμού
• Fygame — Γιάννης
• 1998Let the Women Wait! — Panos
• Ιερή Οικογένεια — Γιάννης Βοηκλής
• 1995Sapounopetra: To hrima sto Laimo sas
• 1992Up, Down and Sideways — Μπιλ (Ταξιτζής)
• Απίστευτα κι Όμως... Ελληνικά — Writer
• Βεγγαλικά
• 1988Κουφώματα Λαδώματα — Writer
• 1988Ο Σόλων Έτσι και το διαμάντι του Μήλου — Idea
• I kyria mas — Music
• 1987Patris, listeia, oikogeneia — Music
• 1986Πειναντέους
• 1985The Bricks — Music Coordinator
• 1984Edo einai Valkania! — Music Director
• Ο Θείος μας ο Μίμης — Music
• 1981When the Greeks — Musician
• Αστροφεγγιά — Music
• 1978Which Way to the Septic Tank? — Original Music Composer

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2025Worship - (My) Greek Cult Movies — Himself