In the 1950s and ’60s, Anna Chrysafi was a leading lady of popular Greek music: the first popular singer to appear in a movie (The Tower of Knights in 1952), a regular collaborator with composer Giorgos Mitsakis, and part of Giorgos Zambetas’s bouzouki party (with Manos Hadjidakis and Melina Mercouri), that played in Cannes in 1960 for the screening of the award-winning film Never on Sunday.
Despite her popular music accomplishments, there were some early recordings that caught the tail end of the classic rebetiko era, particularly in her work with Vasilis Tsitsanis, Giannis Papaioannou and others in the early 1950s.
Chrysafi was born in Athens in 1921. She came to prominence as a performer and recording star in the post-WWII era, and continued performing into the 1970s.
The Bed, a bitter lover’s lament, was written by Tsitsanis and recorded with him in 1955.
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