website associated_acts years_active alias label name background birth_date instrument genre article_title birth_name
-lsb- http://www.sadahzinia.com/ http://www.sadahzinia.com/] active member 1994 -- present broken code warner , 8ctagon , imantas sadahzinia solo_singer 1977 rapping hip hop , low bap sadahzinia
 yolanda tsiampokalou
sadahzinia

sadahzinia -lrb- born yolanda tsiampokalou ; -rrb- is a greek rapper , regarded by many as the first woman to enter the hip-hop scene in greece .
her name is a play on the words : `` sad '' + `` jah '' + the flower `` zinia '' .
since 1994 she has been working in the studio and performing live in greece and europe with the successful hip-hop/low bap group active member .
in 2002 she officially became a member of the group .
in 1999 she took her degree of english literature , philosophical faculty athens .
she has played keyboards and percussions for a short while both in shows and in the studio , but in the last years she is more focused on her rap and on writing lyrics .
these past years she has worked either in the studio or on the stage with several artists both from abroad and from greece , such as waldemar bastos , sokratis malamas , rodney p , skitz , killa kela , mixologists , adam fuest , winston irie , chris hall , oliver wilson , dynamo dresden , extremists and more ... also , she has often performed in london , wales and germany .
in 2003 sadahzinia and b.d.foxmoor found `` 8ctagon '' , their own label .
in addition , she is a writer and translator .
she writes her own fairy tales for children and translates well-known and appreciable books .
she was writing recipes for children in the children 's newspaper researchers for four years , while for two years she was collaborating with a greek magazine , where she was writing theatrical work for children .
with regard to the presentation of her fairy tales , she has organised a line of events in various spaces -lrb- bookshops , schools , in the children 's museum , in cultural spaces , in libraries etc. -rrb- where she presents theatrical works written by her , with big attendance of children .
she also has her own whole page column in a newspaper .
