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Light Song

Greek Music Express: Light Song _ Giorgis Christodoulou meets Attik | 26 Mar. 2025
On this episode of GME, we revisit a genre of Greek song that flourished in the 1930s and influenced, with its sensitivity and melodic quality, a variety of other styles. Specifically, we will be celebrating the encounter of a contemporary singer-song-writer with a major light song creator. Our destination:...
Greek Music Express: Light song _The contribution of Fotis Polymeris | 21 Feb. 2025
Today, we are exploring the contribution of Fotis Polymeris to the development of light song – the dominant style of music in Greece in the 1930s and 1940s. Polymeris, who passed away in 2013 at the age of 93, was one of the leading vocalists of his time and an equally talented songwriter who gave u...
Greek Music Express: Light song _ The perfection of Nikos Gounaris | 19 Feb. 2025
Who really was Nikos Gounaris and what enabled him to be accepted by everyone? What is it that launched and maintained his legend well beyond the confines of his genre, light song? The famous rebetiko musician Yiannis Papaioannou writes in his autobiography: “Of those so-called ‘Europeans’, only one i...
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