Michalis Genitsaris ( el, Μιχάλης Γενίτσαρης or Γεννήτσαρης) (15 June 1917 – 11 May 2005) was a
Greek
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singer and composer of the ''
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 ...
'' genre. He was born and died in Agia Sofia,
Piraeus
Piraeus ( ; el, Πειραιάς ; grc, Πειραιεύς ) is a port city within the Athens urban area ("Greater Athens"), in the Attica region of Greece. It is located southwest of Athens' city centre, along the east coast of the Saron ...
. He was known as the last pre-war ''rebetiko'' singer. He composed such songs as ''Ego mangas fenomouna'', ''Enas leventis esvise'' (dedicated to
Aris Velouchiotis
Athanasios Klaras ( el, Αθανάσιος Κλάρας; August 27, 1905 – June 15, 1945), better known by the ''nom de guerre'' Aris Velouchiotis ( el, Άρης Βελουχιώτης), was a Greek journalist, politician, member of the Commun ...
) etc. He was interviewed for the Australian SBS programme ''Music of the Outsiders'' in which he describes his encounter with a policeman when he was seventeen, the age at which he composed ''Ego mangas fenomouna''.
1917 births
2005 deaths
Musicians from Piraeus
Greek songwriters
20th-century Greek male singers
Greek rebetiko singers
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