Greek Music Express: More poetry set to music – Lena Pappa & Kiki Dimoula | 23 Feb 2024

Lena Pappa’s songs have been set to music by the Katsimihas brothers and Yiannis Nikolaou, among others. Pappa notes: “This is something that I consider important because composing music has an educational effect on the general public, through the marriage of two sensibilities, poetry and music”. As for Kiki Dimoula, her work is haunted by the existential dissolution of the post-war era, with her central themes being hopelessness, insecurity and oblivion. Today, we are listening to creations by, among others, Anemos, Mariza Coch and Kyriakos Sfetsas, inspired by her poetry.