Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.

" Referring to his creative experiences on the 2009 Voices project Yanni explained that "while most of the music I write is instrumental I love to use the human voice as another instrument. In 2000 The Los Angeles Times' Don Heckman wrote that Yanni was "a living metaphor for Success on Your Own Terms the dream of every American with an idea that is either ridiculed or ignored. " Distinguishing his work from what others have called ambient mood music Yanni pointed out in 1994: "New Age implies a more subdued more relaxed music than what I do.

: /ˈjɑːni/ YAH-nee) is a Greek pianist keyboardist composer and music producer (born Yiannis Hryssomallis; Greek: Γιάννης Χρυσομάλλης Giannis Chrysomallis; November 14 1954) who has spent his adult life in the United States. Yanni continues to use the musical shorthand that he developed as a child blending jazz classical soft rock and world music to create predominantly instrumental works.