Ithaka Darin Pappas

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ithaka Darin Pappas
Occupation	Songwriter
Date Of Birth	Jul 8, 1966(1966-07-08)
Age	58
Birthplace	Anaheim
Country	United States
Birth City	Anaheim
Horoscope	Leo

Ithaka Darin Pappas Biography

Ithaka Darin Pappas is one of the most popular and richest Songwriter who was born on July 8, 1966 in Anaheim, Anaheim, United States. Ithaka Darin Pappas (born July 8, 1966), often known simply as Ithaka, is an American sculptor, painter, photographer, songwriter, vocalist, hip hop artist, writer, poet, record producer and surfer of partial Greek descent. His visual work has appeared in exhibitions at the International Center of Photography in New York, The Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles, Musée d’Art Contemporain in Marseille (France) and São Paulo Museum of Image and Sound (Brazil).

Documented uses of Ithaka’s vocal & poem, “So Get Up” (1993) in modern music have appeared under varying titles. The poem was originally recorded for Radio Antenna 1 in Lisbon, Portugal. However, most musical versions stemmed from uses/sampling of the a cappella version that he recorded for Underground Sound of Lisbon in Portugal, 1994.

In 1994, “So Get Up” was nominated for “Song Of The Year” at that year’s Blitz Awards, and later climbed to 8th place on Billboard’s UK Independent Dance Charts (and 52nd on Billboard’s U.S. Independent Dance Charts). More than twenty years after its original release (with at leased 1,029 released remixes of the original vocal), “So Get Up” was deemed by Guinness World Records as being the most remixed vocal a cappella in musical history.

During his active years in Portugal, the artist’s musical projects were nominated for a total of nine Pemios Blitz (the Portuguese equivalent of the Grammy Awards) including; Best Album (for Flowers And The Color Of Paint in 1995 and Stellafly in 1997) and Best Male Vocalist (in 1995 and 1997). In addition, the prestigious national newspaper, Publico, awarded his 1997 release Stellafly as “Album Of The Year” and considered a song from the record Seabra Is Mad as both the “Song Of The Year” and “Video Of The Year”. Publico also cited his debut release Flowers And The Color Of Paint as one of the country’s Ten Most Influential Albums Of The 1990s.

In Lisbon, he recorded his first two hip hop albums, Flowers And The Color Of Paint and Stellafly. His song, “Escape From The City Of Angels” (featuring Marta Dias) appeared on the soundtrack for Columbia Pictures’ feature release, The Replacement Killers. He is also the lyricist/vocalist of the 1992 vocal- poem “So Get Up”, which has been remixed by several international electronic music artists such as Armin Van Buuren, Cosmic Gate, Danny Tenaglia, DJ Vibe, Fatboy Slim, and Meat Katie.

Ithaka Darin Pappas Net Worth

Ithaka Darin Pappas is one of the richest Songwriter from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ithaka Darin Pappas 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Perhaps the most well-known commercial photographic works by Pappas are his early images of the influential Los Angeles Gangsta rap group N.W.A.. Pappas worked for their West Coast record label Priority Records between 1988 and 1991 and documented almost the entire lifespan of the group, from their South Central beginnings, stardom, and eventual disassembly. The pictures from these early sessions, particularly The Miracle Mile Shot, which features all five members of the project photographed on a white backdrop at Pappas’ own apartment in Los Angeles, has been printed in Rolling Stone, Q magazine (UK), The Hundreds, Blitz Magazine (Portugal) etc., and was used as the primary backdrop for the entire NWA segment of the 2016 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Brooklyn, New York. That same image also appears in the 2017 HBO documentary, The Defiant Ones, about Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine directed by Allen Hughes.

In 1989, while living in the Miracle Mile district of Los Angeles, Pappas began one of his major art projects, The Reincarnation Of A Surfboard, a large body of contemporary sculpture work created using recycled surfboards as raw building material and repurposing them into contemporary wall-mounted art pieces. The series to date, which is said to contain an estimated three hundred full-sized sculptures, has been exhibited on four continents and featured in hundreds of magazines and on many TV features. The most recent solo exhibitions of these works were hosted by Hurley Clothing in Costa Mesa, California in October 2013 and WOA: Way Of Arts in Cascais, Portugal in December 2012. He has been active with this medium since its inception; with additional individual pieces made in Mexico. In December 2012, during an interview piece regarding his solo showing of surfboard sculptures at Gallery WOA in Lisbon, Fuel TV Europe declared that Pappas was “The Godfather of Contemporary Surf Art”. Works from this project appear in the private collections of international surfing celebrities and Hollywood production companies. In Oscar-winning actress Marlee Matlin’s non-fictional book entitled, I’ll Scream Later, she says of Ithaka’s work with The Reincarnation Of A Surfboard project, “He turns surfboards into art, seriously”.

In 1993, Pappas wrote and recited a poem called “So Get Up” for his weekly segment on a radio program called “Bairro Quatro ” on Rádio Comercial in Lisbon, Portugal. He later made an electronic musical version with a friend from Manchester, UK. A year later, he re-recorded it as a ‘guest performer’ to be the primary vocal of a B-Side single for the Portuguese dance music group called the “Underground Sound of Lisbon.” The song became an instant national hit and was later released internationally as a ten-mix, double vinyl set on New York’s Tribal Records (a subsidiary of I.R.S. Records/EMI). The song climbed to 8th place on the Billboard’s Independent Dance Music Chart for the UK—and number 52nd in the United States. Since 1995, the song has been remixed by many artists such as Fat Boy Slim, Junior Vasquez, Danny Tenaglia, Miss Kittin, Armin Van Buuren, and Cosmic Gate, and has appeared on over 350 compilations with combined sales/downloads in the tens of millions. Ironically, the song which was considered the first modern “Portuguese” musical export was released without even crediting Pappas, even though he was the primary publishing rights owner of the track and never a member of the Underground Sound of Lisbon project. Reportedly no actual record royalties were ever paid to Ithaka.

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His abstract photographic art and body of sculpture work known as The Reincarnation Of A Surfboard have been exhibited globally, by The Camp in Costa Mesa, California in June 2010, Gallery Alma Do Mar in São Paulo, Brazil in October 2010, WOA-Way Of Arts in Lisbon, Portugal in December 2012, Hurley International in Orange County, California in October 2013, and F+ Gallery in Santa Ana, California from February to March 2015.

Facts & Trivia

Ithaka Ranked on the list of most popular Songwriter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Ithaka Darin Pappas celebrates birthday on July 8 of every year.

In February 2015, the F+ Gallery in Santa Ana, California (founded by Micah Kersh) hosted an all-insect art exhibit entitled “Aliens Of AkahtiLândia”. The exhibit featured over forty original sculptures, photo, and mixed-media works by Pappas; entirely inspired by insects he had observed and photographed on his small art ranch called AkahtiLândia located in the rural, jungle area of the municipality of Mongaguá, Brazil. Six guest creators were invited to do individual interpretations of some of the insects: David Clyde Kersh, Erica L. Ellingson, Ian Morris, Nathan Paul Gibbs, Will Thompson, and Steven R. Kutcher. The opening event also included a live presentation by actress/insect handler Diana Terranova who encouraged attendees to participate by petting and even holding exotic arachnids such as tarantulas and Thelyphonida.