From Dimitris Kontolazos and Katerina Stanisi to Lefteris Pantazis and Antzela Dimitriou, from Tolis Voskopoulos to Pashalis Terzis and Vassilis Karras, there is a musical current that cannot be considered proper folk, but also cannot be ignored. It is something lighter than folk, something perhaps...
It was around 1960 when the well-known singer Michalis Menidiatis and his brothers opened the nightclub "Fantasia" first in the center of Athens and then exclusively to Hellinikon at the Athens Riviera. Big names appeared live, next to younger artists who later rose to stardom: Makis Christodoulopoulos,...
As a small child, at festivals, he got to know the traditional sounds and voices and entered the world of music, succeeding in becoming one of the most important Greek composers. Talented and committed, he never ceased to seek perfection during his long career. It is no coincidence that many artists...
In the 1980s, light folk singers relied mostly on singing easy, digestible songs with slogans. In Katerina Stanisi's records, such songs were absent. "I didn't want songs that were easy to digest, I wanted to build a repertoire. As for Mary Maranti’s career peak, this is probably her majestic performance i...
Pitsa Papadopoulou is a myth. In 1961, at the age of 16, she gets to meet legendary composer Giorgos Zambetas. Upon hearing her, he immediately asks her to sing live. That night, she recalls, singing in front of an audience for the first time, in a borrowed dress, changed her life forever - and the...
Litsa Diamanti is a Greek laïko singer who became famous in the 1960s and 1970s. She has been described as the “wonder-child of the 1960s and the absolute diva of the post-1974 period” while her hits are regarded as all-time classics. As for Haroula Lambraki, she is one more goddess of laiko: “From the age of five I knew I wanted to be a singer. I would go to church with my uncle, who was a cantor, and I would sing with him. My parents were farmers. They were going to the fields, and my sisters and I were going ... Read more
Litsa Diamanti is a Greek laïko singer who became famous in the 1960s and 1970s. She has been described as the "wonder-child of the 1960s and the absolute diva of the post-1974 period" while her hits are regarded as all-time classics. As for Haroula Lambraki, she is one more goddess of laiko: “From th...
A childhood under conditions of extreme poverty; an early marriage at the age of 14; hard manual labour in the factories of Piraeus; a series of hits in the 1970s that turned her into a folk song icon; famous admirers that include politicians, actors and shipping tycoons; adaptation to the pop-folk...
Today’s menu includes some of the most commercially successful vocalists of light folk: Antypas, Vassilis Karras, Notis Sfakianakis, Zafeiris Mellas, Antonis Remos, Aggeliki Iliadi, Litsa Giagkousi, next to global music ambassadors like Glykeria and rebetiko legends like Dimitris Kontogiannis. Their m...
What is the sound of Omonoia, one of the oldest and most central squares of Athens? The square lent its name to an entire sub-genre of laiko popular song, produced by a range of recording companies that were headquartered in the neighbouring streets of Omonoia: Panivar, Intersound, Polyphone, Sonora,...
What is the sound of Omonoia, one of the oldest and most central squares of Athens? The square lent its name to an entire sub-genre of laiko popular song, produced by a range of recording companies that were headquartered in the neighbouring streets of Omonoia: Panivar, Intersound, Polyphone, Sonora,...
Pyramidos: A Japanese band performing covers of Greek folk and traditional songs! Rodehihi: The band’s frontman and lead vocalist. A unique marriage of Greek & Balkan ethnic music with Japanese talent, innovativeness and creativity! From Epirus songs to dances from the Aegean islands and from r...
The album “Mrs. Kaiti and I” contains fifteen songs with the unique, almost primordial, voice of Kaiti Dali, together with the excellent musicians of KOEM, the orchestra of Stavros Xarhakos. One cloudy day, Stavros met Kaiti Dali in a basement of Victoria Square. And there, through the smoke of the...
George Dalaras and a new voice - Aimilia Kouyoumtzi - interpret the verses by poet George Themelis set to music by Stavros Kouyumtzis. Listening to "Helioscope", it is very difficult to distinguish the elements that are superior in its structure. It is a work of popular music, which is overflowing with...
The religious music of Andreas Katsigiannis
Mimis Plessas and the “Kosmas the Aetolian” oratorio
On Holy Wednesday we will be listening to the oratorio Kosmas the Aetolian by Mimi Plessas, with a libretto by Iakovos Avlitis and with Grigoris Valtinos in the role of the well-known monk of the Greek Orthodox Church. "I have always faced wit...
Michalis Grigoriou and the “Dark Act” oratorio, part 2
"I know of course that nowadays "oratorios" that last for one and a half hours are no longer written because the collective symbols that could support them have been lost, and also because the pace of life has accelerated and the limits of ...
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