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Apenanti
( Greek: ''Απέναντι''; English: ''Opposite'') is the 12th album by Greek singer Natasa Theodoridou. It was released on 12 March 2012 by Sony Music Greece and received platinum certification in Greece, selling 12,000 units. The album was written entirely by Giorgos Theofanous with lyrics by Thanos Papanikolaou. Singles from the album included "", "Gia Kanena" and "Tha 'Rtho Na Se Do". Track listing Credits Credits adapted from liner notes. Personnel *Dimitris Antoniou: electric guitar (tracks: 1, 2) *Akis Diximos: backing vocals (tracks: 3, 7, 8) , , second vocal (tracks: 2, 6, 9, 10) *Katerina Kiriakou: backing vocals (tracks: 3, 7, 8) *Spiros Kontakis: electric guitar (tracks: 5, 6) *Menios Pasialis: drums (tracks: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10) *Christos Pertsinidis: acoustic guitar (tracks: 1, 2) *Dimos Polimeris: accordion (tracks: 3, 8) *Nikos Sakellarakis: trumpet (tracks: 10) *Panagiotis Stergiou: baglama (tracks: 4, 8, 9) , , bouzouki (tracks: 1, 2, 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natasa Theodoridou
Natasa Theodoridou ( el, Νατάσα Θεοδωρίδου; born October 24, 1970 in Thessaloniki, Greece, Thessaloniki) is a Greek singer. She is the only female Greek artist to have her first three albums achieve platinum status. She has been certified for a total of at least 432 thousand albums and 20 thousand singles sales by IFPI Greece. On March 14, 2010, Alpha TV ranked Theodoridou the 12th best selling female singer in the nation's phonographic era (since 1960), with a total of ten platinum and three gold albums.''Chart Show: Your Countdown''. Alpha TV. Airdate: March 14, 2010 Career 1996–2001 Theodoridou was born and raised in Drama, Greece, Drama. She studied journalism and at the same time she attended guitar and harmony lessons. During her studies she began her singing career in Thessaloniki. In 1996, she relocated to Athens where she appeared at the music hall "Handres" next to other big Greek singers such as Antonis Remos, Labis Livieratos and Triantaphillos. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Zoi Mou Erotas
''I Zoi Mou Erotas'' (Greek alphabet, Greek: ''Η Ζωή Μου Έρωτας''; en, My Life Love) is an album by popular Greek artist Natasa Theodoridou, released on November 28, 2010 by Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Music Greece. All music and lyrics are by Giorgos Moukidis. Track listing #"Eho Akoma Polla" (Έχω ακόμα πολλά; I still have a lot) – 3:47 #"Psema" (Ψέμα; Α Lie) – 3:35 #"Tora Tha Ponas" (Τώρα θα πονάς; Now, it hurts) – 4:29 #"Mi Stamatas" (Μη σταματάς; Do not stop!) – 3:35 #"Ena Kalo Filo Mou Na Vro" (feat. Nikos Vertis) (Ένα καλό φίλο μου να βρω; A good friend of mine to find) – 3:43 #"Rotas" (Ρωτάς; You ask) – 3:50 #"Poios Tha Pistepsi" (Ποιος θα πιστέψει; Who would believe?) – 2:52 #"Kalinihta" (feat. Giorgos Moukidis) (Καληνύχτα; Good night) – 4:13 Chart performance The album debuted on the Greek Albums Chart at number one in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
S'Agapo
''S'Agapo'' ( el, Σ' αγαπώ, , I love you) is the thirteenth studio album by Greek singer Natasa Theodoridou, released on 14 October 2013 by Minos EMI. It peaked at number 3 on the Greek albums chart. Track listing Chart performance Personnel Production & technical *Antonis Vardis – art director, executive producer *Giannis Doulamis – art director, executive producer *Antonis Vardis – arrangement, programming, keys *Akis Eleftheriadis – recording engineer, mixing Instruments *Panagiotis Terzidis - bouzouki, mandolin, baglamas *Stavros Pazarentsis – clarinet *Foivos Zaharopoulos – guitar *Romeo Avlastimidis – violin Vocals * Natasa Theodoridou – vocals *Giannis Vardis – background vocals Visuals & imagery *Giorgos Katsanakis – photographer *Vasilis Bouloubasis – hair stylist *Giorgos Segredakis – wardrobe stylist, styling *Dimitris Panagiotakopoulos – artwor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marinella
Marinella ( el, Μαρινέλλα) (born 20 May 1938, Thessaloniki) is one of the most popular Greek singers whose career has spanned several decades. She has sung professionally since 1957. Since the beginning of her career, she has released 66 solo albums and has been featured on albums by other musicians. She still sings today and stands out for the range of her voiceDragoumanos, Petros (2009). ''Elliniki Diskografia 1950–2009'' (''Greek Discography 1950–2009'') Early life She was born Kyriaki Papadopoulou (Κυριακή Παπαδοπούλου), in the city of Thessaloniki in northern Greece. Her parents were Greek refugees from Constantinople. She is the fourth and last child of a large family, which despite its poverty, was rich in love and in artistic vein. The whole family gathered around the turntable and sang, while her father tried to teach children the steps of the waltz and the tango. From the age of four years singing on the radio broadcast in "Pediki Ora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laïko
Laïko or laïkó ( el, λαϊκό ραγούδιlaïkó 'tragoúdi'' ; “ongof the people", "popular ong, pl: ''laïká'' 'tragoúdia'' is a Greek music genre composed in Greek language in accordance with the tradition of the Greek people. Also called "folk song" or "urban folk music" ( ''astikí laïkí mousikí''), in its plural form is a Greek music genre which has taken many forms over the years. Laïkó followed after the commercialization of Rebetiko music. It is strongly dominated by Greek folk music and it is used to describe Greek popular music as a whole. When used in context, it refers mostly to the form it took in the period from the 1950s to the 1980s. Rebetiko and elafró tragoudi Until the 1930s the Greek discography was dominated by two musical genres: the Greek folk music ( ''dimotiká'') and the ''elafró tragoudi'' (, literally: "light eightsong"). The latter was represented by ensembles of singers/musicians or solo artists like Attik and Nikos Gounar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sony Music Entertainment
Sony Music Entertainment (SME), also known as simply Sony Music, is an American multinational music company. Being owned by the parent conglomerate Sony Group Corporation, it is part of the Sony Music Group, which is owned by Sony Entertainment and managed by the American umbrella division of Sony. It was originally founded in 1929 as American Record Corporation and renamed as Columbia Recording Corporation in 1938, following its acquisition by the Columbia Broadcasting System. In 1966, the company was reorganized to become CBS Records, and Sony Corporation bought the company in 1988, renaming it under its current name in 1991. In 2004, Sony and Bertelsmann established a 50-50 joint venture known as Sony BMG, which transferred the businesses of Sony Music and Bertelsmann Music Group into one entity. However, in 2008, Sony acquired Bertelsmann's stake, and the company reverted to the Sony Music name shortly after; the buyout allowed Sony to acquire all of BMG's labels, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music, Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese Conglomerate (company), conglomerate Sony. It was founded on January 15, 1889, evolving from the Graphophone#Commercialization, American Graphophone Company, the successor to the Volta Laboratory and Bureau#Commercialization of phonograph patents, Volta Graphophone Company. Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in the recorded sound business, and the second major company to produce records. From 1961 to 1991, its recordings were released outside North America under the name CBS Records International, CBS Records to avoid confusion with EMI's Columbia Graphophone Company. Columbia is one of Sony Music's four flagship record labels, alongside former longtime rival RCA Records, as well as Arista Records and Epic Records. Artists who have recorded for Columbia include AC/DC, Adele, Aerosmith, Julie And ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgos Theofanous
Giorgos (George) Theofanous (, ) (born in Larnaca, Cyprus on 9 January 1968) is a Greek Cypriot composer and producer. He has sold more than two million records and written more than 500 songs in the 1990s and 2000s. Recording artists for whom he has written and produced for include Nana Mouskouri, George Dalaras. His work has received a total of nine Arion Awards, which was an award show by IFPI Greece. He served as a judge on five seasons of the Greek edition of The X Factor. He studied guitar, piano, and music theory at the national conservatory of Greece. He continued his studies at Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA, majoring in arrangement. He has received several awards as a songwriter/producer both in Greece and Cyprus. In 1990 he settled in Athens, Greece where he began his career in the Greek music industry. In April 1993, he married Cypriot singer Evridiki with whom he has collaborated extensively. Together they have one son, Aggelos, who was born in 1996. The co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek Alphabet
The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BCE. It is derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, and was the earliest known alphabetic script to have distinct letters for vowels as well as consonants. In Archaic Greece, Archaic and early Classical Greece, Classical times, the Greek alphabet existed in Archaic Greek alphabets, many local variants, but, by the end of the 4th century BCE, the Euclidean alphabet, with 24 letters, ordered from alpha to omega, had become standard and it is this version that is still used for Greek writing today. The letter case, uppercase and lowercase forms of the 24 letters are: : , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , /ς, , , , , , . The Greek alphabet is the ancestor of the Latin script, Latin and Cyrillic scripts. Like Latin and Cyrillic, Greek originally had only a single form of each letter; it developed the letter case distinction between uppercase and lowercase in parallel with Latin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sony Music
Sony Music Entertainment (SME), also known as simply Sony Music, is an American multinational music company. Being owned by the parent conglomerate Sony Group Corporation, it is part of the Sony Music Group, which is owned by Sony Entertainment and managed by the American umbrella division of Sony. It was originally founded in 1929 as American Record Corporation and renamed as Columbia Recording Corporation in 1938, following its acquisition by the Columbia Broadcasting System. In 1966, the company was reorganized to become CBS Records, and Sony Corporation bought the company in 1988, renaming it under its current name in 1991. In 2004, Sony and Bertelsmann established a 50-50 joint venture known as Sony BMG, which transferred the businesses of Sony Music and Bertelsmann Music Group into one entity. However, in 2008, Sony acquired Bertelsmann's stake, and the company reverted to the Sony Music name shortly after; the buyout allowed Sony to acquire all of BMG's labels, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liner Notes
Liner notes (also sleeve notes or album notes) are the writings found on the sleeves of LP record albums and in booklets that come inserted into the compact disc jewel case or the equivalent packaging for cassettes. Origin Liner notes are descended from the program notes for musical concerts, and developed into notes that were printed on the inner sleeve used to protect a traditional 12-inch vinyl record, i.e., long playing or gramophone record album. The term descends from the name "record liner" or "album liner". Album liner notes survived format changes from vinyl LP to cassette to CD. These notes can be sources of information about the contents of the recording as well as broader cultural topics. Contents Common material Such notes often contained a mix of factual and anecdotal material, and occasionally a discography for the artist or the issuing record label. Liner notes were also an occasion for thoughtful signed essays on the artist by another party, often a sympathetic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
