Tribute to singer Dimitris Mitropanos
Dimitris Mitropanos was a Greek singer. He was renowned for his mastery of Laïkó, a Greek music style. He worked with some of the most renowned Greek composers, such as Mikis Theodorakis, Stavros Xarhakos, Giorgos Zabetas, Manos Hatzidakis, Marios Tokas, and Thanos Mikroutsikos. Mitropanos considered Giorgos Zampetas to be a great teacher and a second father to himself. As he stated, "Zambetas is the only man in music who helped me without expecting anything. With all my other colleagues, I got something and I gave something in return". In 1967, Mitropanos recorded his first 7" single "Thessaloniki." This followed the recording of "Chameni Paschalia", a song that was censored by the Greek military junta and thus never released."Agios Fevrouarios", "The Road to Kythera", Ta Ladadika, are some of his well known recordings, building a career intertwined with the Laïko tradition, until the late 1980s.His songs which continued to be popular among Greeks, such as "Roza", "Panta gelastoi", "Ta Ladadika" "Alimono" and many more,gave him standing ovations at many of hiw world tours. Listen to the podcast and find out more about this popular Greek singer that was renamed "the Voice of Modern Greece"
