Early life
Sakis Rouvas was born on January 5, 1972 in the village of Mandoukion, near Corfu City on the Greek island of Corfu, the eldest son of Konstantinos "Kostas" Rouvas, an ambulance driver, and Anna-Maria Panaretou, a worker at the Duty Free shop at the local airport. He has one brother fully-related by blood, Tolis, three years his junior, while he has a total of three brothers overall.[4]

His talents were revealed from a young age; at age four, his athletic abilities began to show. Both his parents had some background in theater, and at age ten, Rouvas starred in his first major theatrical...