Category: Rebetiko of the day
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Heard it in a love song
Classic era rebetiko is sometimes “romanticized as manges, outlaws, hash dens and alluring females,”…
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Sotiria Bellou & Spyros Efstathiou, The boyfriend
Spyros Efstathiou was a noted musician who emerged in the aftermath of the Second…
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Spyros Zagoraios, God, why did you make us?
Spyros Zagoraios was one of the best-loved singers in Greece beginning in the 1950s,…
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Yiannis Kyriazis, The sucker
Yiannis Kyriazis emerged as a performer late in rebetiko’s classic age, had a long…
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Ouzo, ouzo, all the ouzo
Think Greece. White and blue buildings. Sandy beaches. Bouzouki music. Salads topped with with…
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Ilias Markantonis, The refugee
Every once in a while, I’ll come across a new-to-me artist on YouTube who…
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The song so nice…
…they recorded it four times, under different names, with different lyrics. That was the…
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Argiris Vamvakaris, I was born to hurt
Musically, Argiris Vamvakaris can be a hard man to get hold of. When you…
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Harilaos Kritikos, The Gambler
Before rebetiko fed its influence into the popular urban music of Crete, largely through…
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Traditional: The children in your neighbourhood
Just as the line between rebetiko and the laiko that followed it are (very)…
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