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Poly Panou: Remembering her Ethos

Maria Paravantes — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 08:08:59 +0000

Poly Panou (Polytimi Koliopanou), one of the most loved interpreters of the Greek laika and rebetika genres, will be laid to rest today in Athens. She was 73. It was Grigoris Bithikotsis (aka Sir of the laiko song) who would take her under his wing and give Panou her big break in the ’50s. From […]

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Dimitris Mitropanos: Greece’s Diamond in the Rough

Maria Paravantes — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:10:00 +0000

Mitropanos will live on though his songs, which will continue to speak to the hearts of Greeks and friends of Greeks far and wide. And that, my friends, is true immortality.

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Greek Song Stories: Don’t Think and Drive…

Maria Paravantes — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 07:00:05 +0000

There’s always something about drinking and driving… it just shouldn’t be done… but thinking and driving? Well, that’s another story altogether and a very successful one at that: there must have been so many broken-hearted out there doing just that – that it became one of the Greece’s biggest hits in the late (and blaring) […]

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