Category: Rebetiko of the day
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Kaiti Grey, Dear Mother, I Cannot
Kaiti Grey died early this week at the age of 100. Mourning in Greece…
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Iordanis Tsomides, Tell Me if You’re Tired of Me, with Kiki Kokkini
Iordanis Tsomides, nicknamed Jordan, started learning bouzouki in the mid-1940s, after the classic rebetiko…
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Anthoula Alifragki, For You to Know
Anthoula Alifragki was a well-known popular singer who recorded in every decade of the…
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Gregory Bithikotsis, I Despaired (with Markos Vamvakaris)
Gregory Bithikotsis recorded this song in 1960, but despite the more modern sounding production…
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Dimitris Atreides, New Widow
Dimitris Atreides recorded a couple of dozen recordings through the 1930s, making his mark…
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Apodimi Company, Pikonos’s Beer
Melbourne, Australia has the largest concentration of Greeks outside of Greece or Cyprus – a…
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Çiğdem Aslan, Uncle Giannakakis
This is wholly interesting: a Turkish-born singer, performing (in Greek) a song written by…
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Stelios Kazantzidis: I’m Going for a Swim
Stelios Kazantzidis was the voice of Greek music for decades. While he is best-known…
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Kostas Tsanakos: We Are the Same Now
Kostas Tsanakos, another of the skilled singers who was born in Smyrna and fled…
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Leopold Gad: The hash users
Today we dig deep into the history of rebetiko, back to 1929, before a…
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