Germanou was born in Athens. Her father is the late
Freddy Germanos, a popular journalist and author, and her mother Erietta Mavroudi. For 12 years, Germanou attended the "Mina Aidonopoulou" school, where she got good grades and was good in Math. At the age of 16, Germanou announced to her family that she would like to become an actress, to which her Father suggested journalism instead. A few years later, Germanou finished a professional journalism school in Athens, and was soon accepted to the Orlando campus of
University of Central Florida where she planned to live for the next 5 years, perfecting her study in journalism. About a month and a half before her planned departure to college, Germanou got a job offer to work at the magazine "Ena" owned by Giorgos Koskotas, and managed by Pavlos Bakogiannis. Germanou, with the guidance of her father, accepted, and stayed in Athens, where for the next 4 years, got experience working for the magazines "Ena" and "Kai" and the newspaper "24 Ores". In October 1988, at age 23, Germanou started hosting a radio show along with
Prokopis Doukas titled "Club Sandwich" on "SKY 100,4". A year later in 1990, Germanou started working with
Ant1 Channel and moved her radio show to their radio stations, and started a spin-off musical show of the same name on the channel. At the same time, in 1990, Germanou branched out to writing lyrics, and has since written lyrics for many big Greek singers, with more than 250 songs, and more than 30 platinum and 45 gold records. For the next 4 years, Germanou continued hosting. "Club Sandwich" later became "Blue Jean", and was broadcast daily on the radio station "Athina 9.84", where she also became a radio producer. At the same time, Germanou started hosting the music show "Mega Star" on
Mega Channel, which she continued to host for 10 years. A couple of years later in 1997, Germanou became the programing director and radio producer at the radio station "Sfera 102.2", where she still hosts a radio show today. In 2002, Germanou hosted the first season of
Fame Story, and was later a judge on music related reality shows such as
Dream Show 1 and 2,
Fame Story 3 and
Sound Mix Show. In 2005, Germanou co-wrote the lyrics to the song "
My Number One", which won the
Eurovision Song Contest 2005". In 2007-2008, she was a judge on the music reality show "TV Stars Parousiaste" on
Alpha TV alongside
Ilias Psinakis, while she hosted the show "Randevou sta tifla" every Saturday night on Alpha Channel in the same year. Germanou hosted the morning show "Mes Tin Kali Hara" on
Alpha TV and the evening show
Chart Show:Your Countdown every Sunday, on the same TV channel. ==Personal life==