{"id":313,"date":"2024-10-20T12:40:35","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T20:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamark.ca\/wp\/?p=313"},"modified":"2024-12-07T12:42:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T20:42:03","slug":"ioanna-georgakopoulou-because-of-you-im-drunk-every-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamark.ca\/wp\/2024\/10\/20\/ioanna-georgakopoulou-because-of-you-im-drunk-every-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Ioanna Georgakopoulou: Because of You I’m Drunk Every Night"},"content":{"rendered":"\n


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Ioanna (Joanna) Georgakopoulou is one of the interesting and, as far as I\u2019m concerned, under-rated transitional figures in rebetiko. <\/p>\n\n\n\n


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She started singing and recording with major pre-WWII rebetiko performers when she was a teenager, and continued after the war as rebetiko gradually transitioned to mainstream popular music. Her voice was unlike the Smyrneika-influenced female singers of the time in that it was largely unornamented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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It\u2019s a shame she isn\u2019t as well known as Marika Ninou, Sotiria Bellou and other singers from the 1950s and 1960s: As well as singing, Georgakopoulou wrote and recorded more than 50 rebetiko and popular songs, including \u201cBecause of You I’m Drunk Every Night,\u201d which she recorded with Prodromos Tsaousakis in 1948.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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