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Greek Music Express: Grande dames of ‘laiko’: Rita Sakellariou | 13.05.2024
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Greek Music Express: Grande dames of ‘laiko’: Rita Sakellariou | 13.05.2024

A childhood under conditions of extreme poverty; an early marriage at the age of 14; hard manual labour in the factories of Piraeus; a series of hits in the 1970s that turned her into a folk song icon; famous admirers that include politicians, actors and shipping tycoons; adaptation to the pop-folk ‘slogan’ song of the 1980s; the story of Rita Sakellariou has it all! Above all, it has powerful laiko anthems, recorded by a voice that marked an entire era of social transition and aesthetic confusion. 

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