07/27/2019 – Foals – 2019 Truck Festival – Day 2 – Hill Farm – Oxford, UK – Photo Credit: Landmark / PR Photos
Birth name: Yannis Barnabas Emanuel Philippakis
Place of birth: Karpathos, Greece
Date of Birth: 23 April, 1986
Ethnicity:
*Greek (father)
*Ashkenazi Jewish (mother)
Yannis Philippakis is the lead singer and guitarist of the British rock band Foals.
Yannis was born in Karpathos, Greece, to a Greek father, and a South-African born Ukrainian Jewish mother. He moved with his family to South Africa, when he was four years old, and to Oxford, England a year later. Philippakis was raised Greek Orthodox.