Talk:Orianthi

Michael Jackson's Lead Guitar Player

I'm contesting the deletion of the Orianthi page mainly because she was the new lead guitar player for Michael Jackson. Despite what the automated Wikipedia scripts my say, This should automatically imply her significance to the music industry and justify her own spot here.

She has also received a very powerful endorsement by Carlos Santana that can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwgnfUYFxuM

I also added new citations. I hope this helps rescue the article. Dr.K. logos 04:20, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Ancestry

There have been a few reversions over the recent past due to a disagreement regarding the mention of the ancestral origins of Orianthi. In line with other articles such as Albert Einstein, Hendrik Wade Bode, Arnold Schwarzenneger etc. I think that we should include the origins of the artist in the lede, irrespective of the fact that her name may or may not be recognisable as Greek. Dr.K. logos 05:49, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

What disagreement is there? Its a fact that the girl is Australian of Greek ancestry. Her Greek ancestry did play a part in her life growing up given her official site states her father played in a Greek band; plus her unusual name does make people curious as to where she got it from and she said in interviews that she is named after her Greek grandmother.

Her father, who used to be a player in a Greek band, also kept plenty of instruments around the house, and it didn't take long before Orianthi strummed her first chord. Mastering the six-string came naturally.

http://www.orianthi.com/

"Everyone has troubles in their life," says Orianthi (her real Christian name, which she shares with her Greek grandmother)."

http://www.theage.com.au/news/music/lady-plays-the-blues-santana-among-fans/2007/07/06/1183351460529.html

With a name like Orianthi Panagaris one most certainly has Greek ancestry.

PS: Greek origins are from Gastouni, Ilia, Peloponnese (Γαστούνη, Ηλείας) - (source: her grandmother on Greek TV - http://www.gossip-tv.gr/node/5106). (Angar432 (talk) 18:10, 13 October 2009 (UTC))