From Christiana to Dimitra Galani, from Margarita Zorbala to Tania Tsanaklidou and from Eleftheria Arvanitaki to Dionysis Theodosis, the greatest voices of our country served the aesthetics, the emotions and the images projected by the art of Lina Nikolakopoulou. Today, our week-long tribute to the...
May is an emotionally intense month, symbolising the passage from Spring to Summer, the blooming of nature and of our inner worlds. It is a month of protest and struggles, including the struggles of the working class that we talked about yesterday. But it is also a month of love, of passion, of liberation...
George Dalaras with Dulce Pontes, Haris Alexiou with Sezen Aksu, Locomondo with Tonino Carotone, Thanos Mikroutsikos with Milva, Lavrentis Machairitsas with Salvatore Adamo and Angelo Branduardi – endless international collaborations, endless blending of cultures, peoples and geographies leaving a n...
Today, on Good Friday we listen to sad songs that refer to the day itself – with the voices of Phoebus Delivorias, Vicky Moscholiou, Manolis Mitsias, Eleni Tsaligopoulou and Vasilis Korakakis, among others. We conclude our tribute with Dimitris Mitropanos' plea for equality and justice: "Christ, do m...
On Holy Wednesday we shed light on the inspiration that the folk muse draws from God, with Paschalis Terzis observing “Another is the god of the world” and Elias Klonaridis comfortingly saying “Christ, you are not alone”. And while Stratos Dionysiou asks for “a hearing by God”, Babis Goles reminds us ...
Holy Tuesday has both art and popular features, with Nana Mouskouri wondering “Which God wanted it?” and Giorgos Romanos asking “Where is God?”. Above all, we turn to Lizeta Nikolaou’s complaint: “When God was deciding was each should take / I ended up taking bitterness and a troubled life”.Produced and presented...
Unlike previous years when, here at GME, we chose religious or devotional music for Easter, this year we turn to Greek song and how it converses with the divine element, with God. There is no end to the references of our song to God, as there is no end to the injustices or pain or love or anticipation...
Vassilis Dimitriou took the leading element of mass culture, television, and turned it into a form of high art by dressing popular TV series with his exquisite songs and melodies. His allies were some of the best voices of Greek music: Christos Thivaios, Marinella, Anastasia Moutsatsou, Fide Kӧksal, ...
The main conclusion that we will be drawing from today’s GME is just how multi-faceted and versatile Vassilis Dimitriou was as a composer. You see, he always felt that music is unified. When he went to the conservatory in the early 1960s to study music, genres like traditional, modern, popular folk m...
The main conclusion that we will be drawing from today’s GME is just how multi-faceted and versatile Vassilis Dimitriou was as a composer. You see, he always felt that music is unified. When he went to the conservatory in the early 1960s to study music, genres like traditional, modern, popular folk m...
This week, we will be remembering one of my favourite Greek composers who was born on April 12, 1945, which means that this Saturday we are celebrating the 80th anniversary of his birth. Unfortunately, this year is also the tenth anniversary of his loss, as he sadly passed away on April 28, 2015. Vassilis...
The week that ends today, here at GME, was dedicated to our favourite albums and the songs that were released in the last five years, from 2020 to 2024. Today, we conclude our mini tribute with last year’s top picks, which are founded mainly on fascinating partnerships: seasoned musician Antonis Apergis w...
The panorama of the new releases of 2023 reveals just how vibrant and multifaceted the current landscape of Greek music is, thanks to: A renowned composer (Stamatis Kraounakis) who fuels with admirable consistency the spring of popular song; a rock star (Pavlos Pavlidis) who revisits the best songs...
Despite the profound crisis of the discography in the last two decades, the Greek song is here, alive and kicking. This week, we are exploring some of the albums that were released in the last five years and that confirm this conclusion. Today, we will be listening to the precious return of a grande...
The political hip-hop of Kini Thniti (Common Mortals); the sensitive ballads of Alexandros Emmanouilidis; the urban mythology of Usurum; the world music explosion of Thanos Stavridis; and the re-negotiation of Cypriot tradition by Monsieur Doumani. These are the ingredients of today’s overview of t...
The week that starts today, here at GME, is dedicated to the albums and the songs that were released in the last five years, from 2020 to 2024. In other words, we will be celebrating the most recent and promising works that, of course, also correspond to our own artistic criteria. Today’s broadcast f...
On this episode, we conclude our two-part tribute to the work of a superb folk lyricist who was born on March 29, 1926. Manos Eleftheriou believed that Kostas Virvos' passage through Greek song "was a blessing." Another of his colleagues, Lefteris Papadopoulos, emphasized that "Virvos took the folk...
Greek Music Express sheds light on the work of Costas Virvos, an outstanding lyricist who was born on March 29, 1926, which means that this Saturday we will be commemorating the 99th anniversary of his birth. In today’s GME, we will be focusing on his friendship and artistic association with composer T...
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