Nikos Veropoulos White Feather, was (for a specific reason) born in Athens, Greece in 1954.

Being a man of various useless talents and discovering at young age the vanity of life, dedicated himself to Human Rights and Fine Arts.

 

A multi lingual intellectual, poet and writer, with books published in Europe and the U.S.A, an ethnomusicologist, composer, musician, singer and recording artist with more than 20 personal CDs to his credit selling worldwide and through the internet, a shaman and ritual dancer, photographer, video maker, graphic designer, sculptor and plastic artist, Nikos Veropoulos has been involved with almost all the fine arts as a con artist (not yet caught in the act).

 

As far as plastic arts, he is considered a contemporary artist who specializes in oil and acrylic painting, ink drawing and paper collage. His specialty is surrealism in a personal style but his compositions usually combine elements from many different styles of art, and he is a master in mixed media.

As a composer, songwriter, performer and recording artist who also sings and plays many musical instruments, Nikos Veropoulos specializes in World Music and his own compositions combine elements from many different styles of music, ranging from medieval or classical forms to progressive styles, from melodic lyrical ballads to tribal beats, experimental fusion and world traditions.

 

Although Nikos Veropoulos started his professional career in Greece at an early age, in the late 1970’s he decided to abandon his homeland in order to expand his horizons and live new experiences by traveling, learning and performing music around the world.

His meetings with remarkable people during his world traveling in search of truth, spirituality and life experience, proved to be more than helpful to the developing of his personal identity, beliefs and inspirations.

People like the Cherokee Medicine Man Grey Wolf, His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet, OSHO, Comandante Marcos of the Zapatistas, his life companions and a few more people, who later became adopted members of his extended family, added important influence to his way of thinking and creating for the rest of his life.

 

The name White Feather was given to him by the Cherokee Medicine Man Grey Wolf, after living for many years in the United States with the American Indians and succeeding in helping them regain a few long due rights.  

Nikos Veropoulos White Feather was eventually adopted by the Cherokee Nation (Western Band of Oklahoma), obtaining his Cherokee honorary adoption papers in 1984, a very rare act that changed his life thereafter.

 

In 2002 he was appointed by the late Russell Means, (the Lakota President at the time), the first ever Ambassador of the Lakota Nation (Sioux) and was stationed in Athens, Greece, where he served in this position for two years, before deciding to move permanently to Brazil and get involved with the Amazonian Indians and their rights.

 

Six years later, in August of 2009, his involvement with the Amazonian Indian Rights resulted to his arrest and deportation from Brazil, after he filed charges through the internet against high ranking government officials of that country, who were involved in slaughtering of innocent Indians in the Amazon area.

Therefore he returned to his homeland where he lives till now.

 

Nikos Veropoulos has been a recording artist for MINOS Records (Greece), STATUS QUO VADIS and VANITY Records (USA), PAN Records (Holland), and some independent labels, creating a large discography of his own composi-tions on personal CDs.

Recently his own label EPIMATEO Records re-issued his entire discography and will continue with new releases until Nikos finally retires.

 

He has recorded as a guest on several CDs by other artists, has written the score for the motion picture “What the Moon Saw”, the music for two documentaries and he is the author of three poetry books, published in the USA and Greece.

Nikos Veropoulos has appeared on many television shows and the Greek National TV Channel ET 1 has produced a documentary about his life in March 2004.

 

Nikos Veropoulos has been included in John Schaeffer’s NEW SOUNDS music encyclopedia, together with hundreds of well - known artists, such as, David Byrne, Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, Ravi Shankar, Pink Floyd, Kitaro, The Beatles, Peter Gabriel, Frank Zappa and others. 

(Harper and Row Publishing, N.Y. - London - São Paulo - Sydney

ISBN 0-06-055054-6)

 

Finally, the Greek department of UNESCO sponsored the publication in Greek of his autobiography entitled "Stin Pissa kai sta Poupoula", (thrown in tar and spread with feathers) which was published in Athens in May 2011.

Information about the book you can find by clicking on  the button BOOKS.