Menios Gounaris was born in Agrinio in 1983. He studied classic piano and music theory with Konstantinos Kotinis in the conservatory of Contemporary Art.
Since 2003 to 2006 he attended jazz piano lessons in the Municipality Conservatory of Patra with Giorgos Metaxas. During the period 2008-2010 he studied jazz piano and harmony with Stavros Lantsias. At the same period, he created his own trio, with which he made performances in several places in Greece. In 2011 he continued his studies at the Conservatory of Utrecht with Bert van den Brink and Randal Corsen.

He has collaborated with artists like Kostis Maravellias, Kostas Livadas, Penny Baltantzi, Zoi Papadopoulou, Matoula Zamani and he has taken part as a pianist in theatrical performances, under the direction of Thodoris Gonis. He is a permanent member of Takis Barberis Group. In 2020 the album of the group Flood, called First Drop was released in 2020.