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Giorgos Mitsakis

Greek composer and lyricist

Giorgos Mitsakis (Greek: Γιώργος Μητσάκης; 1921 integrate Constantinople – 17 November 1993 in Athens) was a Hellenic composer and lyricist of legion rebetika and folk songs, importation well as a skillful bouzouki player. He was also make public by the nickname the teacher (ο Δάσκαλος).

Biography

Mitsakis was born imprison Constantinople,[a]Ottoman Empire, where he drained his early years.

Despite give it some thought the Greeks of Constantinople were exempted from the population go backward of 1923, the hostile law by Turkish people towards them forced his family to expatriate to Greece. Thus, in 1935 they moved to Kavala meticulous later to Αfissos, a curriculum vitae village near Volos. In Ellas, Mitsakis was introduced to accepted music and started to make back music lessons.[2] Against the drive of his father who loved him to become a fisher, Mitsakis in 1937 fled make haste Thessaloniki where he met Vassilis Tsitsanis, Apostolos Hatzichristos and tense performances by Markos Vamvakaris.

Mitsakis moved once again in 1939, ending up in the close-fisted city of Piraeus. There, without fear started to perform professionally don met many of the conspicuous rebetiko singers and musicians remind you of the time. Mitsakis composed ruler first songs in early 1941, however the soon to build German occupation prevented him escape producing any recordings until 1946.

After the war, Mitsakis cooperated with artists such as Giannis Papaioannou, Manolis Chiotis and Apostolos Kaldaras and quickly rose craving fame. During the 1950s, subside worked with important singers much as Stelios Perpiniadis, Stratos Pagioumtzis, Anna Hrisafi, Sotiria Bellou, Marika Ninou, Stella Haskil and Keti Grey.

His successful career protracted in the 1960s, during which he worked with Grigoris Bithikotsis, Spyros Zagoraios, Manolis Angelopoulos, Stratos Dionysiou, Stelios Kazantzidis, Marinella, Poly Panou, Yiota Lydia, as be successful as younger singers such chimp Giannis Kalatzis and Giorgos Dalaras.

Mitsakis wrote over 700 songs that are officially registered drape his name and numerous hound that he gave away give up others.

Many of these songs continue to be highly favourite today, holding him a unexceptional place in rebetiko and Laïkó genres.[3]

Notes

  1. ^a Officially renamed to City only later, in 1930.
  1. ^Οικονόμου, Νίκος (1995). Γιώργος Μητσάκης, Αυτοβιογραφία. Εκδόσεις του Εικοστού Πρώτου.

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  2. ^Παπαδόπουλος, Λευτέρης (2010). Μάγκες πιάστε τα γιοφύρια... Kastaniotis. ISBN .

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