Heaven Music is an independent record label

Independent record label

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 in Athens

Athens

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, Greece

Greece

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, founded in 2001 by ANT1 Group

ANT1 Group

Antenna Group better known as ANT1 Group is a media company in Greece and is currently the largest Greek media company. It was established in 1988 by Minos Kyriakou, the president and founder of Antenna Group. Today Mr. Kyriakou heads up a media empire whose operations include broadcasting,...

. It is known for signing new and young artists.

Overview

During its first five years of operation under the control of George Levendis

George Levendis

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, Heaven Music was credited with certifications of a four-time platinum album, three double platinum albums, five platinum albums and twenty-four gold albums, as well as one double platinum, one platinum and eight golden CD-singles.

Heaven had an exclusive contract with the songwriter Phoebus since the company's founding until he left in late 2009. He is well known in Greece and Cyprus for his work with many popular singers and having produced several multi-platinum albums.

Heaven has shown a pattern of interest in new and young singers. It cooperated with parent company's talent show Fame Story

Fame Story

Fame Story was a Greek reality TV show that was a licensed version of Endemol's Star Academy on the ANT1 network. It has been one of the most successful Greek TV shows over the last years. The contestants gave a weekly performance in a 2½–3 hour episode in which the contestants were judged...

, the Greek version of the Star Academy

Star Academy

Star Academy is a highly successful television show format based on the Spanish format "Operación Triunfo" produced by Endemol, that has been broadcast in over 50 countries...

 franchise, and signed several of its contestants.

Heaven has worked to promote its artists outside of Greece. In 2002, Heaven began a collaboration with the Ministry of Sound

Ministry of Sound

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, a leading dance label in Europe, exposing Despina Vandi

Despina Vandi

Despina Malea , known by her stage name Despina Vandi , is a Greek singer. Born in Tübingen near Stuttgart, West Germany, Vandi's family returned to Kavala, Greece when she was six years old and she later enrolled at the University of Thessaloniki, but eventually dropped out to begin a career in...

's album Gia

Gia (album)

Gia is an album by Greek singer Despina Vandi that was originally released on December 19, 2001 by Heaven Music. Since release, it has been re-released several times, and has become one of the best-selling album of all time...

, which was already certified multi-platinum in Greece, across Europe

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 and North America

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.

Heaven Music also has a digital distribution deal with several national iTunes Store

ITunes Store

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s, as well as with other Greek digital download retailers.

Current artists

The following artists are currently signed to Heaven Music.

• 15 50
• 48 Ores
• Aggeliki Iliadi
• Alkistis Protopsalti
  Alkistis Protopsalti
  Alkistis Protopsalti , born as Alkistis Sevasti Attikuzel ) is a Greek singer.- Early life :Alkistis Protopsalti was born in 18 October 1954 in Alexandria, Egypt by Egyptiot parents....
  
  
• Amaryllis
• AMMOS
• Antonis Remos
  Antonis Remos
  Antonis Remos , is a Greek laïko singer.-Early life:Antonis Remos was born in Düsseldorf, West Germany. He was raised there by his Greek parents, and later his family moved back to their native Thessaloniki, Greece, where he finished school. During his childhood he got involved with music and...
  
  
• Antonis Vardis
• Artemis - Efthimis (A/E)
• Bo
• Eleana Papaioannou
• Giannis Ploutarhos
  Giannis Ploutarhos
  Giannis Ploutarhos is a popular Greek singer and songwriter. He is considered one of the most popular laïko singers of his time, and has been characterized with having a genuine laïko voice...
  
  
• Giannis Vardis
• Giorgos Mazonakis
  Giorgos Mazonakis
  Giorgos Mazonakis is a Modern Laika and pop Greek singer.-Biography:Giorgos Mazonakis born and raised in the neighbourhood of Nikaia, Athens. He grew up listening to traditional folk songs of Stratos Dionysiou, Yiannis Parios, Marinella and Haris Alexiou. Very quickly, at the age of 15, he...
  
  
• Giorgos Perris
  Giorgos Perris
  George Perris is a half Greek-half French international singer. Multilingual, he sings in Greek, French, English and Spanish, in all of which he is fluent. As well as singing, he also composes music and writes lyrics to some of his songs. He has studied the piano for 12 years in Athens...
  
  
• Kalomoira
• Kelly Kelekidou
  Kelly Kelekidou
  Kelly Kelekidou , sometimes referred to as Kel Kel, is a Greek singer. To date, she has released four studio albums and one CD Single which was certified Gold.-Career:...
  
  
• Konstantinos Galanos
• Kostas Karafotis
• Kristina S
• Nikiforos
• Nikos Gkanos
• Nikos Karvelas
  Nikos Karvelas
  Nikos Karvelas is a Greek songwriter, producer and singer. He has sold millions of records as a producer and is most recognizable for his three-decade-long collaboration with Anna Vissi, while some of his other well-known collaborations include Sakis Rouvas. Karvelas has released multiple...
  
  
• Nikos Kourkoulis
• MATTYAS
• Polina Hristodoulou
• Rallia Hristidou
• Sakis Arseniou
• Stathis Raftopoulos
• Stefanos Dimosthenous
• Theoharis Ioannidis