The first period of Giorgos Kazantzis’ creative work strongly bears the characteristics of a musician seeking for his personal identity in the classical form, mainly, but also having basic influences from the modern Western world, rock and jazz music. His musical education, moreover, including theory, classical guitar and piano, probably added to this direction. The explosion in his career happens when he decides to write his first “neo-folk” songs, with the debutant Lizetta Kalimeri, which brought him to the forefront of the new singing scene. Singers Mihalis Papazisis and Andreas Karakotas became the two other main vehicles of his art in that decade.
Produced and presented by Hercules Economou