Voula Savvidi, a living legend of Greek song and a precious friend of mine, appeared in the discography in 1971 alongside composer Christos Leontis, performing two songs on the album “5 to 12”. In 1974, her voice met Manos Hadjidaki’s look at rebetiko with the album “Ta Perix”. Hadjidakis himself based an ambitious project on it: “With ‘Perix’, I set to choose and revisit the seventy or even eighty most beautiful songs of our popular music. And I try to convey them through a authentically female figure, a folk painting masterfully painted by Giannis Moralis, with the voice of a girl from Thessaloniki called Voula Savvidi”. Unfortunately for all of us, this plan of Hadjidakis failed to materialise.
In his interviews, Goles used to return to his big artistic passions: The things from my repertoire that I love the most are the folk-traditional songs of songwriters like Kavouras, Tzouanakos and Roukounas. I really like them. I have an endless repertoire, but it is not possible to sing everything. I sing whatever comes to my mind and what the orchestra knows… Songs that I fell in love with since I was a small child and heard from my father, from his friends, from my mother, from my neighborhood, from the taverns in Patras.
Produced and presented by Hercules Economou