Author: Mark Hamilton
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Dimitris Gogos: Tobacco
Tobacco, written for his wife and other women workers in a Piraeus tobacco factory,…
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Marika Papagika: Baglamades
Not a singer or writer today, but a song, from the early days of…
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Michalis Genitsaris: The Swiper (Saltadoros)
Born in Piraeus, Genitsaris taught himself to play bouzouki and wrote his first song…
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Let’s take a boat tonight, written by Dimitris Semsis (Salonikios)
Dimitris Semsis was a violinist, composer and record executive, involved in hundreds of recordings,…
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Rita Abatzi: Sabah Manes
Manes, or amanes, is a musical form from Asia Minor that was adopted into…
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Yiorgos Kavouras: I Hurt and You Don’t Pity Me
Between 1936 and 1940, Yiorgos Kavouras cut 70 tracks, 50 of them written by…
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Stella Haskil: I’m burning, I’m burning
Stella Haskil was the daughter of a well-to-do Jewish-Greek family, who discovered her voice…
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Bayandera, written by Grigoris Asikis
Istanbul-born and trained Grigoris Asikis was an oud player and singer who, after moving…
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Daizy Stavropoulou: My princess
Daizy Stavropoulou came to the scene late in the classic era of rebetiko. After…
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Antonis Diamantidis (Dalgas): The Baglama Broke
Antonis Dalgas, as he is best known, was already an established singer when he…
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