Author: Mark Hamilton
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Kostas Kanoulas, <em>The mother who gave birth to you</em>
Mothers are common in Greek music – actually, music everywhere in the world, I think.…
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Christos Tsitsanis: Sit down and listen
Here we have the other Tsitsanis, the older brother of Vasilis, who plays a…
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Dimitris Atraidis, The infatuated
Dimitris Atraidis is said to be one of the purest interpreters of Smyrneika rebetiko,…
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The old man & I want a princess
She wants an old man to marry. He wants a princess from Morocco. And…
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Gerasimos Klouvatos, Plunge the knife into me
Gerasimos Klouvatos merged during there 1950s as a leading composer and bouzouki player. He…
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Yiannis Tzivanis, The Prisoner
Over the course of the 1950s, Yiannis Tzivanis sang some of the best rebetiko…
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Charalambos Mavridis, Don’t let money fool you, with Ioanna Georgakopoulou
Charalambos Mavridis is another one of the Greek performers who had a small but…
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Thanasis Athanasiou, Hours and minutes
We are past the time when the old rebetes, the singers and players who…
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Kitsa Korina, Magissa Matsaragissa
There are people I wish I knew more about. People such as Kitsa Korina…
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Vangelis Perpiniadis, Cry for me, friends, cry for me
There are a handful of rebetiko “families” – siblings who performed together or separately,…
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