Dolleesi is an accomplished, independent singer-songwriter known for her powerful vocals and impressive vocal range. She was born in the city of Drama, grew up on the island of Rhodes, where she began her musical journey with intermediate stops in Athens, London, and Boston, and is now active in Los Angeles, California.
She graduated with a scholarship from Berklee College of Music with a dual degree in Bachelor of Music, “Voice Performance” and “Songwriting,” with the highest honorary distinction, “summa cum laude.” Additionally, from a young age, she has acquired extensive knowledge in: Performance Art, contemporary singing, piano, guitar, and a degree in Advanced Music Theory.
Creative and multi-dimensional, Dolleesi composes songs with a rich palette, blending elements of Pop, R&B, and electropop, while Greece and Mediterranean culture run through her veins, always inspiring her music.
Dolleesi has her own team of renowned songwriters and producers with whom she has released five singles: “Independently Me,” “Escape,” “Sugar Rush,” “Late Christmas,” and “Promises.”
She has received many awards and has collaborated with distinguished artists in the music industry, such as Gabrielle Goodman, the award-winning ASCAP songwriter, Nichelle Mungo, a Grammy-nominated music educator, and Bonnie Hayes, a Grammy-winning songwriter and producer, known for the album “Nick of Time.”
She has shared the stage with four-time Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Rosanne Cash, Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, and composer Esperanza Spalding, and Grammy-winning musician, songwriter, and producer Nile Rodgers.
She collaborated with renowned American composer Austin Wintory, a Grammy-nominee and two-time BAFTA-winning composer, where she sang in ancient Greek for the soundtrack “Journey: I Was Born For This (Traveler Symphony).”
She worked with IMC Games and Bank of Innovation, performing several soundtracks, including “Cherry Blossom Blader,” “Powerful Terramancer,” and “He Shall Come” for the game “Tree of Savior” with millions of users, as well as the soundtrack “Straight Ahead” for the video game Memento Mori.
She was selected to participate in the prestigious Kara Dioguardi Songwriting Camp, held at the Power Station-Berklee in New York, where she conducted songwriting sessions with Grammy and Emmy-nominated Kara Dioguardi, the A&R Director of Universal Music Group, Matt Maschi, Lava Records, and others.
As a performer and songwriter, Dolleesi has appeared in famous venues such as the Agganis Arena (8,000 seats) in Boston, the Berk Recital Hall – a stage that has hosted Grammy winners like Steve Vai and Susan Tedeschi, the Red Room Café 939, where artists like Tori Kelly, Ed Sheeran, and Leon Bridges have performed, and also at David Friend and Oliver Colvin Hall, where artists with numerous GRAMMYs, such as John Mayer, Gary Burton, and Dee Dee Bridgewater, have performed. She has also performed at the South Boston Maritime Park, the MIT University Coffeehouse Lounge, 2TWNETY2, Bar Lubitsch in West Hollywood, and many other venues in Boston and Los Angeles.
“Let’s discover the key to our hearts and walk hand in hand,
in a world that we are in need of each other.”
-Dolleesi
