Category: Rebetiko of the day
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Each with their own pain, written by Theodore Derveniotis
The deeper I dig into rebetiko, the wider the music becomes. It isn’t a…
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Angeliki Karayianni, My little Arabian playful one
There are any number of performers who fallen through the cracks of rebetiko history,…
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Morocco and women: rebetiko tales
An odd thing happened to the Greek music that had grown from rebetiko in…
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Eleni Lambiri, The freshwater mangas
Eleni Lambris recorded under four different names, once appearing on record with one name…
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Eftychia Papagiannopoulou, Life has two doors (Lyrics)
Life has two doors I opened one and entered walked one morning and by…
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Victoria Hazan, Beggars of love
Victoria Hazan was probably best known for her mid-20th century American recordings of Turkish…
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Stavros Tzouanakos, This night that passed
Stavros Tzouanakos emerged from the late years of the classic rebetiko era and, between…
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Mike Patrinos, My mousourlou (Misirlou)
I’m confused. Mike Patrinos may also have been Haris Patrinos. Or perhaps Dinos Theodopoulos.…
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Dimitris ‘Bebis’ Stergiou, A Conversation With Death
It is contradictory: Bebis Stergiou was a legend and is relatively unknown. He was…
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Takis Binis, Beautiful woman from Piraeus
Takis Binis arrived on the rebetiko scene in Athens in the late 1940s and…
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