Author: Mark Hamilton
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Haralambos Panagis: The Smuggler
Haralambos Panagis, also known as Haralambos Petropoulos, appears in the rebetiko discography only a…
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Giorgos Mouflouzelis: Where are you, dude, in the winter?
While the golden age of rebetiko fell in the middle of the 20th century…
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Rebeteki Company: How Will the Evening Go
In the late 1960s and early 1970s –– as the right-wing military junta that ruled…
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Καλά Χριστούγεννα
In other words, Merry Christmas ( ka-la krees-tou-ye-na). There are no traditional Christmas rebetiko…
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Takis Nikolaou: The Mangas from Psyrri
Takis Nikolaou was one of several names adopted by Tetos Dimitriadis, a major force…
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Antonis Kalyvopoulos: Our mangas are complaining
Earlier, I posted about Giovan Tsaous who recorded only a dozen songs, all of…
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Marika Kanaropoulou: Inside Manthos’s Tavern
I haven’t been able to find out much about Marika Kanaropoulou, who recorded a…
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12-Year-Old Girl, composed by Sotiris Gavalas
Sotiris Gavalas is another of the pre-WWII composers who left a small but important…
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Stelios Foustalierakis: I Rejoice in My Suffering
We’re going wandering a little today, as far south as Crete, to explore rebetiko…
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Odysseas Moschonas: The Separation
Smooth-voiced Odysseas Moschonas was among the most popular singers of rebetiko and laiko music.…
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