AWARDS
'This Is How I See It'
THE JOHN LENNON SONGWRITING CONTEST 2004 - A Winning Finalist (World)
BILLBOARD SONGWRITING AWARDS 2005 - Honourable Mention - Top 1500 Songs
MIDEM INTERNATIONAL SHOWCASE AWARDS 2004-2005 - A Winning Album for performances in Cannes, France
5th ANNUAL INDEPENDENT SONGWRITING AWARDS 2005 - A Winning Finalist (World Fusion)
2006 SINGER-SONGWRITER AWARDS - WE ARE LISTENING.ORG - A Winning Finalist (All Categories)
TIN RECORDS - NEW MUSIC SERIES COMPILATION - Winner for 2007
COURIER MAIL PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARDS - QSong 2006 - Winning Finalist
QMUSIC AWARDS - Winning Finalist 2006
DIASPORA FOR AFRICA VOLUME 2 2007 - Winner and Featured Track - UNICEF, IFAM, Amnesty International, The Water Foundation and The Shaken Baby Alliance
TUNETANK REGGAE EXPRESS 2006 - Winner and Featured Track
MUSIC FOR PEACE PROGRAM USA 2007 - Winner and Featured Track

ENDORSEMENTS AND AFFILIATIONS
ENDORSEMENTS with 'TOCA' and 'TAMA' Drums and Percussion USA
ASSOCIATE MEMBER - THE RECORDING ACADEMY (The Grammy Foundation)
MASTERS IN MUSIC - M.MUS.
BACHELOR OF MUSIC EDUCATION (Hons) - B.MUS ED
DIPLOMA OF MUSIC - A.MUS.A (Hons Performance)

DISTRIBUTION DEAL with SUMTHING DISTRIBUTION USA owned by Nile Rogers, Album "This Is How I See It"
CEO & HEAD FACILITATOR - 'DRUMFIRE TEAMBUILDING' Corporate Team Synergy Workshops
DIRECTOR AND HEAD LECTURER - 'VOICEWORX ACADEMY' - for Recording Artists
CEO & FOUNDING DIRECTOR - BADBUBBA RECORDS
MASTER DRUMMER ENDORSEMENT - KITIPA DRUMS

CHRISSE IS A MEMBER OF
USA NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RECORD INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS (NARIP)
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR MUSIC EDUCATION (ISME)
THE MUSIC COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA
USA FILM MUSIC NETWORK

WHAT SETS MY MUSIC APART FROM OTHER BANDS
Taking the most ancient and magnificent roots rhythms from Greece, Turkey and North Africa, and re-presenting it to you in its most vibrant, and pulsating contemporary form - so unique, so uplifting, I believe that CHRISSE FEROS & THE DRUMMERS OF TOUMBA! TOUMBA! and MEGALI WORLDBEAT will take you on an unforgettable musical journey.
I am a Hunter and Gatherer of world music rhythms and styles with an overwhelming passion to write and re-create, and to perform these original works.
I classify myself as a recording artist, composer, and a 'Librarian' - writing, recording, and collecting songs, chants, and reforming rhythms for performance.

My influences are some of the oldest and most exciting rhythms in the world: which come from the regions of Mycrassia, (Asia Minor) now Turkey. and North Africa.

MY BACKGROUND
My father's name was Platon Hadzi Antoniou, and my mother, Thorothea Haritos. Thorothea and Platon met and married in Australia in the late 1940's. I was their second child and was christened 'Chrisoula'.
I am known as Chrisse Mam'Afrika Feros (I was given this title by my band members further to the performance of the song "MamAfrika" on my debut album, entitled No More Justifying).

The families of my parents were born and had lived in the beautiful Greek Provinces and cities of Mycrassia, (Asia Minor), and Smyrna - in now what is known as Turkey.
Of Greek Nationality - their homeland no longer exists. The refugees from Mycrassia had to make new homes for themselves. My people resettled on the islands of Lesvos, and Kastellorizo, in Piraeus, and in Australia. We are known as "Mycrassia'tes"

They brought with them, their belongings, and their memories, their priceless treasure of Greek culture, music and song, including traditional rhythms of Greece, such as the Re'Betico, Tsifteteli, Sousta, Sirto, and the Kalamatiano.

I was raised and educated in the Northern Territory and spent my senior schooling years at Ipswich Girls Grammar School in Queensland. I studied music at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music. Upon graduating, I furthered my own research of 'roots music', world music rhythms, lyric and voice. As well as this, I was composing and producing albums for a variety of artists.