BIO
Kentucky Soul is the vision of musician Yani Vozos accompanied by various artists to create musical medicine that inspires love and longing; bringing people together to dance and celebrate life.
Yani Vozos is a singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (guitar, mandolin, charango, and sitar) from Kentucky. He performs original music in many styles ranging from acoustic latin- folk -rock rhythms to funky jazz grooves to traditional old- time folk and bluegrass. His music is upbeat with writing that focuses on positivity and universal spiritual connections with the earth that everyone can relate to. Yani writes music directly from his heart with the intention of sending out vibrations of love and joy to inspire people around the world.
Musical Adventure
Yani’s musical adventure began in the south- rural Eastern Kentucky mountains. He grew up there running through the creeks and trees going to square-dances and listening to his parent’s records of country, motown, blues, latin, and country. When he was 15 years old he fell in love with the guitar and played lots of Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, Jimi Hendrix, Hank Williams Jr., James Brown, Metallica, Santana, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Allman Bros songs, practicing 6 hours a day as a teenager. Moved to the north for college and discovered world and jazz music during his time living in Pittsburgh and NYC. As a Peace Corps volunteer in Honduras, Central America Yani fell in love with Latin music playing cumbias, salsa, reggae and samba. After he returned home to Kentucky in 2003 and dug into the Kentucky folk and Bluegrass music of Bill Monroe on mandolin. Now after all of these years, the music he plays is an amalgam of all of these styles infused with a little bit of love and lots of inspiration.
