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Kakia Panagiotou was a greek actress born in Athens on 26th of Ιανουαρίου 1923. She studied at the National School of Arts, ‎she made her first appearance on stage in ‎‎1945‎‎ in the play "Avlaia" and in ‎‎1948‎‎ she was hired at the National Theatre of Greece as the first in the dance of the ancient drama. In the performance of "‎‎Oresteia‎‎" by ‎‎Aeschylus‎‎, she was particularly...

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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...

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Manolis Chiotis: March 21, 1921 – March 20, 1970 He is considered one of the greatest bouzouki soloists of all time. He popularised the four-course bouzouki (tetrachordo) and introduced the guitar-like tuning, who found it better suited to the kind of virtuoso playing he was famous for.‎ Manolis Chiotis reportedly wrote more than 1500 songs, however, he also regularly participated as a soloist...

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Giorgos Zampetas, Greek music composer, singer and one of the greatest bouzouki artists, from a very young age, Zampetas showed a great interest in music anything that was producing sound seemed exciting to him and helped him in his compositions, he won his first prize, playing his first song in a school competition. He was one of the most recognized Greek musicians of all times, working in the...

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‎Stalia - stalia‎‎ is the title of ‎‎Marinella's‎‎ first personal ‎‎album‎‎, after her separation from ‎‎Stelios Kazantzidis‎‎. It was released on a ‎‎33' vinyl record‎‎ in ‎‎Greece‎‎ and ‎‎Cyprus‎‎ on ‎‎January 17,‎‎ ‎‎1969‎‎ by PolyGram Records, under the label of Philips Records. ‎Listen to the podcast and find out what composer Giorgos Zambetas said about creating this gem of an old time...

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‎Fragosyriani‎‎ is a song by ‎‎Markos Vamvakaris‎‎ that was written and recorded by him in 1935. It is one of the most important and well-known songs of the composer. The song has been recorded and re-performed by many well-known Greek & foreign artists. The most famous, probably, adaptation is considered to be that of ‎‎Grigoris Bithikotsis‎‎, in 1960,‎‎ which made it better known. ‎Listen to...

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Dinos Dimopoulos 22 August 1921 – 28 February 2003 was a Greek actor, film director, screenwriter and theatre director. He directed 47 films between 1953 and 1993. His 1959 film Astero was entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival. His 1960 film Madalena was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. He wrote also some theatrical plays. He has won the best director award in...

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Tzeni Vanou born Eugenia Vrachnou; 10 February 1939 – 5 February 2014, was a Greek singer, born in Athens. She had planned on studying physics, but she met her mentor, Greek composer Mimis Plessas, who persuaded her to become a singer. She began her career in 1959 performing with the ERT orchestra. In 1964, she won first prize in the Thessaloniki Song Festival. ‎In 1969 she traveled to America,...

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Filopimin Finos 1908 – January 26, 1977 was a pioneer Greek film producer of 186 films and the founder of Finos Film, whose first film was in 1939. He built the first sound recording device in Greece, and shot the first colour film with stereo sound. ‎ During the second world ‎‎war‎‎ he filmed important documentaries from the ‎‎Front of Albania‎‎ and ‎‎German-occupied‎ Athens. He is considered...

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"Darla dirladada" Greek folk song "Dirlada" originating from the island of Kalymnos in Greece. It was conceived as a song that sponge divers would sing when traveling with their caïque boats across the seas. The song's lyrics contain words of encouragement and the opportunity awaiting the crew. One of the most notable recordings is that performed by Pantelis Ginnis, a Kalymnian sponge diver...

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‎Eftychia Papagiannopoulou‎‎, originally Hadjigeorgiou-Economou, later Nikolaidou and finally Papagiannopoulou‎‎‎‎ (1893 - January 7, 1972) was the first ‎‎female Greek‎‎ ‎‎lyricist‎‎, and the most important of Greek folk song. ‎‎She began writing lyrics in 1948 and selling them for amounts from 200 to 300 drachmas. But having a great addiction to ‎‎gambling‎‎ she lost a lot of money this way....

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‎‎Kostas Doukas‎‎ ‎‎was born in Smyrna in 1895‎‎ he was a ‎‎Greek‎‎ ‎‎actor‎‎.‎ His real name was Konstantinos Aslanidis. He studied at the Commercial School and worked at the ‎‎Bank of Athens‎‎. He left his job there to become an actor. He took part in films by ‎‎Kostas Hatzichristou‎‎, such as ‎‎Tis Kakomoiras‎‎ (The codcat).‎ ‎Apart from his acting career on stage and screen, in the end he...

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Jenny Karezi, was a Greek film and stage actress, and her real name was Evgenia Karpouzi she was born in Athens, Greece 12 January 1934 and passed away on the 27 July 1992 from cancer. Her stage debut was in the Marika Kotopouli theatre in the French comedy, La belle Heléne, with Melina Mercouri and Vasilis Diamantopoulos. In 1955, Karezi made her cinema debut in the Alekos Sakellarios' comedy,...

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Eleni Papadaki was born on 4 November 1903 in Athens to an affluent family, she studied philology at Athens University, phonetics, music and piano at the Great Conservatory of Athens, but began an acting career at the age of twenty-two in 1925, in Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author. The theatre critic for the Demokratia newspaper greeted her performance with the comment...

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Grigoris Bithikotsis, also known as Sir of the Greek pentagram, was one among the greatest Greek songwriters and folk singers of the 20th century. Bithikotsis was born on 11 December 1922, in the Athenian suburb Peristeri and he was the youngest child of an eight-member family. He decided to follow the folk music and rebetiko at the age of fifteen, he made his debut on the Greek stage in 1949...

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Dimitris Horn was the son of scriptwriter Pandelis Horn and godson of the famous Greek actress Kyveli. He had an aristocratic aura and an intense stage presence. From an early stage he developed a reputation as the "best actor of his generation" performing in many classical theatrical plays. His most notable films were "The Counterfeit Coin" (1954) and "A Girl in Black" (1956). He later married...

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Tasso Kavaddia was born on January 10, 1921 in Patras. She studied piano in Athens, writing and decoration in Paris, scenario and clothing with Giannis Tsarouchis, and acting at the Drama School & Art School with Karolos Koun. From 1954 until 1967, Kavaddia worked as a radio journalist and radio executive. From 1955 until 1969, she was a newspaper reporter. She had also worked as a translator....

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Kostas Hatzichristos 25 December 1921 - 3 October 2001, was an actor and director, who initially studied at the Sergeants Major Military School of Syros, but found his way on to the theatrical stage after the German invasion. To avoid being caught one night by the Nazis, he decide to hide amongst the actors of a theatrical play. He made up his on words, the crowd laughed and that was when he...

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‎Rosa Eskenazi‎‎ ‎‎(1897‎‎ – ‎‎December 2,‎‎ ‎‎1980)‎ ‎was a ‎‎Greek‎‎ Jewish dancer and singer of ‎‎rebetiko‎‎, ‎‎traditional Greek music, ‎Kanto and Turkish folk music, born in Constantinople. Her recordings and performances in music centers lasted from the late 1920s to the 1970s.‎ She was the first female artist to sign a recording contract based on royalties. Listen to the podcast and find...

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‎Giorgos Fountas‎‎ (June 3 - 1924 - November 28, 2010) was one of ‎‎the‎‎ most important Greek ‎‎actor‎‎ in cinema, theater and television. His career spanned five decades, appearing in more than fifty films he is known among other things for his role in the Golden Globe winning film ‎‎ ‎‎Stella‎‎ ‎‎ (1955) by ‎‎Michael Cacoyannis.‎‎‎‎ He participated in many other distinguished films of the...

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