Saint Kyriaki links with Starious on new single

Multidisciplinary Detroit-based artist, filmmaker, actor and host Katie Chonacas has spent years moving between creative worlds. She’s built a decorated career across film, television and independent culture, while music remains the gravitational centre she continually returns to. Under the artistic banner Saint Kyriaki, her sonic vision brings together Greek Orthodox tradition, high-fashion flair, cinematic atmosphere and electronic music, creating a space where spoken-word poetry and club production can overlap.

Raised in the metro Detroit area with deep Greek origins, Katie grew up surrounded by the legendary melodies of Motown as well as the energy of Detroit’s underground electronic scene. Those contrasting influences remain embedded in Saint Kyriaki’s sound, where poetry meets electronic production and a personal connection to Greek heritage. Named after the Great Martyr, the moniker itself reflects the relationship between the sacred and contemporary that runs throughout her work.

Her musical journey officially began in 2018 with the debut single “Belligerent,” followed by multiple well-received singles and full-length records. In 2021, her debut album, Dreamland 1111, took her sonic output into a eleven-poem sequential journey tracing global travel and divine femininity. Her music has also reached major network soundtracks and global stages, including an international stadium tour with 50 Cent and G-Unit.

Her latest chapter feels truly distinct, with Saint Kyriaki increasingly embracing collaboration and connection, moving away from years of working in isolation and towards international partnerships that bring together cultures, generations and creative disciplines. That philosophy sits directly behind her new single titled “Wild Woman Greek Isles,” a release that sounds as adventurous as the story that brought it into existence.

Created through a transatlantic collaboration with Athens-based producer Starious, “Wild Woman Greek Isles” began with an unexpected moment of connection. While watching a Greek variety show with her grandmother and best friend, Gia Gia, Katie discovered Starious’s work online, leading a creative exchange between Detroit and Greece, with Katie recording her vocals in Detroit before sending them across the Atlantic.

Starious transformed those recordings into a fully realised jungle electronic track in just one week, with his contribution giving the track an energising setting that turns Katie’s a cappella poetry into something hypnotic, rhythmic and cutting edge. Rolling into a grooving scene of pulsing bass notes and intricate percussive shots, a mesmeric Afrobeats soundscape takes shape as Saint Kyriaki’s voice enters above the rise of synth elements. Pairing spoken word vocal delivery with atmospheric arrangement, the track flows with danceable energy to form an immersive and trance-inducing listening experience that’s energising and thoroughly transportive throughout.

With “Wild Woman Greek Isles,” a quiet afternoon spent watching Greek television with a 96-year-old grandmother ultimately became the spark for an international collaboration, capturing a moment based in family, heritage and memory becoming a piece of electronic music. That sense of creative leap is increasingly central to Saint Kyriaki’s output and from working across music, filmmaking, acting or podcasting, Katie Chonacas views creativity as something that should remain in motion. With “Wild Woman Greek Isles,” she turns connection itself into a creative force; Detroit meets Athens, spoken word meets electronics and generations meet through a song born from artistic adventure.

Listen to Wild Woman Greek Isles below

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