Thanasis Nikopoulos was born in Lamia in March 1953. He began his musical studies at the Municipal Conservatory of Lamia and then studied piano, flute and advanced theory at the Municipal Conservatory of Athens. He is a graduate of the Law School of the University of Athens and a doctoral candidate in the Department of Philosophy of the same university, researching the correspondence between poetry and Music. His two best known albums are titled Love Songs and Songs of the Sea One and Two, and include performances by Danae Panagiotopoulou, Nikos Androulakis and Giannis Zaras. Apart from Nikopoulos’ songs that set to music French and Greek poetry, our track list today also includes other modern songs about the sea performed by Filippos Pliatsikas, Maria Anamaterou and Marina Satti, among others.
Produced and presented by Hercules Economou