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Mrs. Koula, <em>The baglamades</em>
/p> Mrs. Koula – Κυρία Κούλα, in Greek – lets us hear what the Smyrneika strain of proto-rebetiko sounded like near the turn of the last century. /p> Kyriakoula Paschali-Giortzi (Antonopoulou after she married), was born in Istanbul in 1880. She arrived in New York in 1900, already a singer of a wide range of…
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