Author: Mark Hamilton
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Dimitris Perdicopoulos: Damn You, America
Dimitris “Mitsos” Perdicopoulos recorded more than a hundred Greek songs in a variety of…
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Yianni’s Cup, written by Manolis Chrysafakis
Manolis Chrysafakis left behind a small but significant output of rebetiko songs from the…
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Ismini Diatsentou: Modern Widow
“I am the modern widow / who gets drunk in the tavern / and…
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Marko Melkon: Whatever you ask for you will find
Marko Melkon is one of the fascinating musicians of rebetiko. He was born Melkon…
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Duo Charma: The Photograph
Duo Charma is an example of what happened with popular urban music in Greece…
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Nota Kalelli: They Told Me Not to Love You
I am well and truly stumped by Nota Kalelli. She performed as either the…
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More rebetiko on video
A number of good rebetiko documentaries have been made – My Rebetika Blues, My Sweet…
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Ioannis Chalkias: To minore tou teke
To minore tou teke (I’ve kept the Greek here rather than using the rather…
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Elli Petridou: In Faliro, Where You Bathe (with Markos Vamvakaris)
There’s not much online trace of Elli Petridou, a singer from the late 1930s,…
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Rebetiko: The Movie
You can’t talk about rebetiko without talking about the movie Rembetiko. Wikipedia says: “Rembetiko…
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