Vassiliou was born in
Famagusta in north east Cyprus in 1964. A resolution of the situation of a divided island was abandoned by the United Nations in 2017. as a solo singer. In 2013 she returned to the house where she was born and met the elderly couple who live in what was her family's home. She still considers herself a refugee and she has given concert's supported by the interior ministry and the
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). In 2023 the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus's Deputy Ministry of Culture organised a free concert at the
Cyprus Museum, in the country's capital of
Lefkosia. The concept concert included traditional Cypriot songs as well as jazz tunes. Its theme was the female god
Kypris and it was said to be inspired by the museum's contents. ==References==