Jannis Zotos (born 3 May 1958) is a German musician, composer, arranger and guitar teacher of Greek origin. He is also the owner and manager of the jazz club b-flat in Berlin. He studied classical guitar at the renowned Hochschule für Musik „Hanns Eisler“ in

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

and he also masters

Bouzouki The bouzouki (, also ; el, μπουζούκι ; alt. pl. ''bouzoukia'', from Greek ), also spelled buzuki or buzuci, is a musical instrument popular in Greece. It is a member of the long-necked lute family, with a round body with a flat top and ...

and

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instruments. His personal focus is on

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 s ...

music, so called

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music and traditional Greek music. He used to be a member of the group percussion & strings. In 1990 he founded the Rebetiko band Zotos Kompania together with his brother Thanassis Zotos. Greek television ERT produced a documentary about the band touring

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. Amongst many others, Jannis Zotos did projects together with

Mikis Theodorakis Michail "Mikis" Theodorakis ( el, Μιχαήλ "Μίκης" Θεοδωράκης ; 29 July 1925 – 2 September 2021) was a Greek composer and lyricist credited with over 1,000 works. He Film score, scored for the films ''Zorba the Greek (film) ...

Maria Farantouri Maria Farantouri or Farandouri ( el, Μαρία Φαραντούρη; born 28 November 1947 in Athens) is a Greek singer and also a political and cultural activist. She has collaborated with Greek composers such as Mikis Theodorakis, who wrote the ...

Dimitra Galani Dimitra Galani ( el, Δήμητρα Γαλανή) is a Greek singer and songwriter. Galani was born 1952 in Athens and began her musical career at the age of 16 providing vocals on several tracks of Dimos Moutsis and Nikos Gatsos on the album "A ...

. He did numerous recordings both as a sideman and under his own name. He teaches guitar at the Freie Musikschule Potsdam and lives in Berlin, Germany.

Discography

*''Deviation - Zotos Kompania live in Concert (Cooleur, 1995)'' *''Zotos Kompanía: Lethargía (Anjoke, 2004)'' *''Jannis Zotos & Band: Die leisen Stimmen der Erinnerung (Oudattack Records, 2007)'' *''Jannis Zotos: Amour fou (Maria Polidouri, Kostas Karyotakis)(Oudattack Records, 2013)''

References

External links

Official Homepage
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