Emmanuel Tsoupakis

NAME : EMMANUEL SURNAME : TSOUPAKIS ADRESS : MYTILINIS 13 – MAROUSSI ATHENS

I WAS BORN IN ATHENS IN 19/04/1978. I GRADUADED FROM THE TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL OF HALANDRI , WITH MAJOR IN ELECTRONICS, IN 1996. DURING MY SCHOOL YEARS I ALSO I FOLLOWED MUSIC COURSES IN SEVERAL MUSIC ACADEMIES. I ACCOMPLISHED MY ARMY DUTIES IN 1998. AT THIS TIME I START WORKING PROFESSIONALLY AS A DRUMMER. MY FIRST STEPS THOUGH BEGUN WITH MY FATHER, GEORGE TSOUPAKIS WHO IS A WELL KNOWN DRUMMER IN GREECE. I COOPERATED WITH SEVERAL AND TOP ARTISTS OF MY COUNTRY SUCH AS : GIORGOS TSALIKIS, KAITI GARMPI, ELLI KOKKINOU, ANTYPAS, SAKIS ROUVAS AND MANY OTHERS.THE LAST TWO YEARS I’VE BEEN PERFORMING WITH DESPOINA VANDI AND GIORGOS MAZONAKIS. THE DRUM SET I’VE BEEN USING ON STAGE, IS MADE BY THE WELL KNOWN “GABRIEL” CONSTRUCTOR AND CONSISTS OF TWO BASSE DRUM 22”, THREE TOMS 8” – 10” – 12”, TWO FLOOR TOMS 14” – 16” AND TWO SNARES 10” – 14”. THE CYMBALS SET I USE ARE THE “ISTANBUL” AND IT IS CONSISTED OF FOUR CRASS 3×18” AND 1×17”, ONE RIDE 20”, TWO CHINAS 1×18” AND 1×20” AND ALSO ONE COUPLE OF HI-HATS 13”.IN MY OPINION THE ISTANBUL MEHMET CYMBAL SET ARE THE BEST BECAUSE THEY SUIT IN EVERY MUSIC STYLE EITHER JAZZ, FUSION , ROCK, TRADITIONAL ETC.

Apollo Custom II maple Drum set