VASILIKÍ “Harley Queen”

Vasilikí was born and raised in Athens, Greece and moved to New York City at age nineteen to pursue a performing arts career.
Throughout this time she has worked on her signature retro sound while building an artistic persona which is drawn by an eccentric, vintage aesthetic that she developed due to her “fascination over those 60 years
of art, music and fashion starting from the ‘20s till the late ‘80s.”
Having also graduated acting school and studied dancing in Greece, she likes to invest her music with her own choreographic and creative direction ideas. She puts a lot of significance into the visual aspect of her music as it represents the initial idea that inspired the music in the first place, just as much as the music itself does.

“I wrote “Harley Queen” early 2021 in New York,” Vasilikí says. “I was sitting in my bedroom in Washington Heights and I started playing around with some melodies. All of a sudden I had written half of
the song without even realizing it. I felt like there were many unexpressed emotions that found their way on a piece of paper that night. I then passed on my ideas to my favorite human and producer, Stavros. We kept working on it for a long time, but it wasn’t until I recorded the operatic harmonies that it felt like
the song made sense. It was like it started living in a world of its own and that is what I was aiming for.”

“HarleyQueen” talks about a girl with big dreams and alluring confidence. Just like Harley Quinn – she meets someone who’s inner world fascinates her so much that she opens up like never before and it
leaves her heartbroken. “Sometimes we find parts of ourselves in other people, sometimes that is the reason we fall in love. We
keep our vulnerable side hidden behind a mask that we never take off until someone takes it off for us. We surrender to that someone with our hopes and dreams. We experience love in the most intense
manner which can be as freeing as it can be terrifying. HarleyQueen is special to me in the sense that it paved the way for all of the music that will come next, it sort of gave birth to my first musical era.”

THE MUSIC VIDEO
“My friend from acting school, Josh Gillis came to film a theater show another dear friend of mine wrote and directed, in which I was performing – at Under St Marks Theater. I told him I was looking for someone to film the music video for my next song and we decided to
collaborate.” “I put on my rollerblades and my five dollar gown and the two of us went to a few different locations in New York and shot the whole thing in one day. I had most of the ideas planned in my head beforehand but it was interesting that all the shots in the alleyway happened by accident.”

-Official bio