On the day of the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, on September 14, 2001, the heart of Stelios Kazantzidis stopped beating.
The show “Journeys basking in Greek light” by Giannis Papoutsakis on September 14 was dedicated to Stelios Kazantzidis, on the occasion of the 22nd anniversary of his journey to eternity. Kazantzidis was the voice of the people, of workers, of immigrants, of people living in small neighborhoods. He sang for half a century of his pain, sorrows and woes, never betraying his roots. The broadcasting program features “artistic” songs by Stelios composed by Theodorakis, Hadjidakis, Xarhakos, Markopoulos, Loizos, Leontis, Vardis, and Spanoudakis, alongside insights shared by L. Papadopoulos, Hadjidakis, Zampetas, Savvopoulos, Mitropanos, and Bithikotsis on the Kazantzidis phenomenon.
