Orianthi Panagaris was born in Adelaide, South Australia, and is of Greek and Australian descent, 22 January 1985. An Australian musician, singer-songwriter and guitarist.

She learned to play the acoustic guitar at six at the encouragement of her father, started electric when she was eleven and left her school, Cabra Dominican College, due to bullying and a lack of support from her peers, enrolling at the prestigious Mercedes College. At the age of 15, she turned her focus on writing songs and so began her professional career. She has been playing in bands since the age of 14 in England and in France, her first stage show for Steve Vai at age 15. Orianthi met and jammed with Carlos Santana when she was 18. He invited Orianthi to jam up and jam with him at soundcheck then later jammed if she would jam with him on stage that night to jam at his Adelaide concert, Jam Memorial Drive on 30 March 2003 jam.



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