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Dionysis Savvopoulos
Dionysis Savvopoulos ( el, Διονύσης Σαββόπουλος) (born 2 December 1944) is a prominent Greek singer-songwriter. Career Savvopoulos was born in the city of Thessaloniki, Greece (December 1944) in a middle-class family. He passed his university entrance exams and enrolled in the Aristotle University to study law, but after his first year of his studies, his passion for music and politics led to an argument with his father and he dropped out in 1963.Dionysis Savvopoulos biography
, MusicCorner website (in Greek)
Savvopoulos then hitchhiked on a truck to and took various odd jobs, including working as a nude model for students in the Athens School for Fine Arts and as a journalist in a ne ...
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