Category: Rebetiko of the day
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Babis Tsertos, At Linardos’ tavern
Born in a mountain village in the Peloponnese, Babis Tsertos was headed for a…
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Fotis Vergopoulos, For you, my black-eyed one (with Rebetien)
In Athens in May 2013, we repeatedly came across two young guys playing rebetiko.…
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Yiorgos Tzortzis, But What Am I Doing, I Love You?
I’m not sure there is a Greek name more mellifluous than Yiorgos Tzortzis; it…
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Dancing zeibekiko
We don’t often associate early rebetiko with dance music but – to a degree…
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Angeliki Palagoudi, Wherever You Are, Don’t forget, with Thodoros Kavourakis
There was a push-pull relationship between Greece and the United States when it comes…
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Apostolos Kaldaras, The Mangas Go for a Walk
Apostolos Kaldaras, one of the great Greek composers of the 20th Century, was born…
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Haris Alexiou, Lili the Mischievous Girl
Haris Alexiou (born Hariklia Roupaka in Thebes in 1950) has one of the world’s…
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Loukas Daralas, The Outcast
When you do the research, the most important facts of Loukas Daralas’s life seem…
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The Manges Don’t Exist Anymore
I used to have the vague idea that rebetiko died somewhere around 1954 and…
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Anna Chrysafi, The Bed
In the 1950s and ’60s, Anna Chrysafi was a leading lady of popular Greek…
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