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Greek New Wave
Néo kýma ( el, Νέο Κύμα, , translated as "new wave") is a Greek music genre appeared during so called Greek New Wave movement in the mid-1960s which lasted about a decade. It was a mixture of éntekhno, entechno and Chanson, French chansons; it was so named by Giannis Spanos after the French ''French New Wave, Nouvelle Vague''. Most of the Greek New Wave artists released their songs in the Greek label LYRA (record company), LYRA. Notable artists Notable Greek artists from the Neo Kyma movement include: *Arleta (musician), Arleta *Keti Chomata *Kostas Hatzis *Mariza Koch *Rena Koumioti *Notis Mauvroudes *Lakis Pappas *Giannis Poulopoulos *Dionysis Savvopoulos *Giannis Spanos *Mihalis Violaris *Giorgos Zographos *Lefki Symphonia *popi Asteriadi See also * Rebetiko * Laiko * Greek Punk References {{reflist External links ''Contemporary Greece 1945-2000'', Foundation of the Hellenic World 1960s establishments in Greece 20th-century music genres Greek styles of mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek Music
The music of Greece is as diverse and celebrated as its History of Greece, history. Greek music separates into two parts: Greek folk music, Greek traditional music and Byzantine music. These compositions have existed for millennia: they originated in the Byzantine empire, Byzantine period and ancient Greek music, Greek antiquity; there is a continuous development which appears in the language, the rhythm, the structure and the melody. Music is a significant aspect of Greek culture, Hellenic culture, both within Greece and in the Greek diaspora, diaspora. Greek musical history Greek musical history extends far back into ancient Greece, since music was a major part of ancient Greek theater. Later influences from the Roman Empire, Eastern Europe and the Byzantine Empire changed the form and style of Greek music. In the 19th century, opera composers, like Nikolaos Mantzaros (1795–1872), Spyridon Xyndas (1812–1896) and Spyridon Samaras (1861–1917) and symphonists, like Dimitris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960s Establishments In Greece
Year 196 ( CXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dexter and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 949 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 196 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus attempts to assassinate Clodius Albinus but fails, causing Albinus to retaliate militarily. * Emperor Septimius Severus captures and sacks Byzantium; the city is rebuilt and regains its previous prosperity. * In order to assure the support of the Roman legion in Germany on his march to Rome, Clodius Albinus is declared Augustus by his army while crossing Gaul. * Hadrian's wall in Britain is partially destroyed. China * First year of the '' Jian'an era of the Chinese Han Dynasty. * Emperor Xian of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek Punk
The Greek punk ( el, Ελληνική πάνκ, ) scene was small but powerful in the Greek capital, Athens, in the 1980s. Bands such as Adiexodo (''Dead end''), Genia Tou Chaous (''Chaos generation''), Stress, Panx Romana, Ex-humans, Anti (''Contra'') functioned as a bunch of related bands, who gave concerts together, in the same locations. Like elsewhere, punk attitude has been loosely used by various individuals, but most of the times the key element was the youthful anger and the provocative anti-establishment attitude. Many newer crust and hardcore punk bands such as Ksehasmeni Profitia ( Gr:ξεχασμένη προφητεία) (''Forgotten prophecy''), Naftia (''Nausea''), Deus Ex Machina and others of the 1990s followed DIY ethics, gradually forming a small but powerful network in most big Greek cities. This network has sometimes been linked with local anarchist-related groups, squats, cultural/social/left-wing centers. Most of the concerts of punk bands in Greec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebetiko
Rebetiko ( el, ρεμπέτικο, ), plural rebetika ( ), occasionally transliterated as rembetiko or rebetico, is a term used today to designate originally disparate kinds of urban Greek music which have come to be grouped together since the so-called rebetika revival, which started in the 1960s and developed further from the early 1970s onwards. Rebetiko briefly can be described as the urban popular song of the Greeks, especially the poorest, from the late 19th century to the 1950s. In 2017 rebetiko was added in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists. Definition and etymology The word (plural ) is an adjectival form derived from the Greek word ( el, ρεμπέτης, ). The word is today construed to mean a person who embodies aspects of character, dress, behavior, morals and ethics associated with a particular subculture. The etymology of the word remains the subject of dispute and uncertainty; an early scholar of rebetiko, Elias Petropoulos, and the modern Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Popi Asteriadi
''Popi'' is a 1969 American comedy-drama film directed by Arthur Hiller, and starring Alan Arkin (in the title role) and Rita Moreno. The screenplay was written by Tina Pine and Lester Pine. The film focuses on a Puerto Rican widower struggling to raise his two young sons in the New York City neighborhood of Spanish Harlem. Plot Abraham Rodriguez, known as Popi to his sons Luis and Junior, supports them by working three jobs, leaving him little time to supervise them. He hopes to earn enough to marry his girlfriend Lupe and move the family into a better home in Brooklyn. Then reality crashes in as the boys see gangs do violence in the neighborhood and are even victimized when their clothes are stolen from them. While working at a banquet in New York for Cuban exiles, he hatches an idea. Realizing his boys have a better chance of making good as political refugees than products of the ghetto in which he's raising them, he plots to set them adrift in a rowboat off the coast of Miam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lefki Symphonia
Lefki may refer to several places in Greece: * Lefki, Ithaca, a village on the Strait of Ithaca * Lefki, Karditsa, a village in the Karditsa regional unit, part of the municipal unit Fyllo * Lefki, Kastoria, a village in the Kastoria regional unit, part of the municipal unit Agia Triada * Lefki, Larissa, a village of the Elassona municipality *Lefki, Lasithi, a municipality in Lasithi, Crete *an alternative name of Koufonisi, Crete Koufonisi (Greek: Κουφονήσι, known as Leuce in antiquity) is an uninhabited Greek islet, located 5.6 km (3 nautical miles) south of cape Goudero on the coast of Lasithi, eastern Crete, in the Libyan Sea. The island is roughly long a ..., an archipelago south of Crete *a village in Evmoiro, Xanthi, Greece {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgos Zographos
Giorgos Zographos (Greek language, Greek: , ; born 4 August 1936; body discovered 12 August 2005) was a Greeks, Greek musician and actor. Biography Georgios Zographos was born in Athens in 1936, the son of actors Nikos Zographos and Alikē Zographou. He started his career as an actor after graduating from the Drama School of Karolos Koun. He first sang in the Mykonos boîte ''Thalamē'' () followed by appearances at many musical clubs () at Plaka. Zographos was a representative of the Greek New Wave. Some of his most famous song performances are that (written by Notis Mavroudes), (by Giannis Markopoulos), (by Nikos Mamangakis), (by Mikis Theodorakis), (by Manos Hatzidakis). Death In Friday, 12 August 2005, Zographos was found dead in his flat in Syntagma Square. He was found by one of his friends who had been worried about Zographos been missing for about 15 days. Zographos was buried on 17 August, and interred in Athens' Kaisariani, Kaisarianē Cemetery. Zographos was surv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mihalis Violaris
Michalis Kyriakou ( el, Μιχάλης Κυριάκου), known by his stage-name Michalis Violaris () (born 9 January 1944 Agia Varvara, Nicosia Cyprus), is a popular singer and composer of modern Greek and Cypriot music. He is also a pioneer responsible for popularising in Greece Cypriot songs sung in the Cypriot dialect. His song "Ta Ryalia" (also "Ta Rialia") sung in Cypriot Greek became a hit in the top-10 of Greece in 1973. Life and career He grew up in Larnaca, Cyprus where he studied at the National Conservatory of Music in Larnaca, a branch of the National Conservatory of Music of Athens. In 1962 he moved to Greece where he enrolled at the school of Philosophy of Athens University and eventually obtained his degree. He became part of the New Wave musical movement in Greece and his first musical cooperation was with Greek composer Yannis Spanos. His songs made Cypriot music widely popular in Greece in the 1960s and 1970s. He won third prize at the Thessaloniki Song ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giannis Spanos
Ioannes "Giannis" Spanos ( el, Ιωάννης "Γιάννης" Σπανός, ; 26 July 1934 – 30 October 2019), also transliterated as Yannis Spanos, was a Greek music composer and lyricist. In his early days as a musician he was also a piano accompanist. Spanos won the music prize at the 1971 Thessaloniki Film Festival for composing the score of the film '' Ekeino to kalokairi''. Biography Spanos was born in Kiato in 1934. His father was a dentist. Spanos was influenced by his sister's piano studies, and moved to Athens at the age of 17 to study at the National Odeum where he learned to play the piano. His father wanted him to become a scientist so he sponsored a yearly trip around Europe; Spanos lived briefly in Italy, Germany and the UK, eventually coming to Paris, France, whereto he eventually moved more permanently in 1961. In Paris he worked in the artistic scene at the Rive Gauche as a piano accompanist. He accompanied there many French artists like Cora Vaucaire, Serge G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
