Despina Vandi (Greek: Δέσποινα Βανδή) was born Despina Malea, on July 22nd 1969, near Stuttgart-Tübingen, West Germany, Germany. Although born in Germany, Vandi’s family was from Kavala, Greece, where she and her family moved when she was six years old. As a result, she did not learn German, unlike the rest of her family. She has one older brother and an older sister. Living in a lower middle-class family her dream was to become either an actress or a singer but she always knew that she should have something more solid as a background so she went on to study psychology, philosophy, and education at the University of Thessaloniki. At the start of her singing, Despina changed her last name to Vandi, to hide that she was singing from her parents.

Despina Vandi is married to Demis Nikolaidis, ex-international soccer player and former President of AEK soccer club. She has a five year old daughter named Melina and a son named Giorgos born in August 2007.

A Discovery Channel documentary entitled Europe’s Richest People estimated Vandi and Nikolaidis’ combined fortune to be in excess of 10 million euros in 2003.

Temporary biography from Wikipedia.

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