Stelios Kazantzidis and Sotiria Bellou are two voices that became symbols of the pain, the desires, the hardships and the visions of postwar Greeks – both those who stayed in the country and those who emigrated in search of a better life. With their popular songs, these two vocalists were loved fanatically by audiences that were thirsty to express all the powerful feelings and images that had accumulated inside them. Today’s track list includes urban folk songs composed by the likes of Apostolos Kaldaras, Vassilis Tsitsanis, Costas Kaplanis, Christos Nikolopoulos and Argyris Kounadis.
Produced and presented by Hercules Economou