When poet and lyricist Manos Eleftheriou was asked to write a short autobiographical note, he wrote the following text: “I was born in 1938 in Ermoupolis, Syros. I wrote poems, short stories and lyrics for many songs. I read many books, listened to a lot of music, saw places. I met great people and many bastards. Great people taught me what love, friendship, companionship and mercy mean. The rest taught me the ways through which one can harm all of these with impunity. Both categories are useful for a writer. But only the first has a place in heaven”. Today, here at GME, we remember Mr. Manos through a selection of his more popular, folk creations, performed by Giorgos Sarris, Lizetta Nikolaou, Elias Klonaridis, Voula Savvidi and Stratos Dionysiou, among others.
Produced and presented by Hercules Economou