Michalis Genitsaris ( el, Μιχάλης Γενίτσαρης or Γεννήτσαρης) (15 June 1917 – 11 May 2005) was a
Greek singer and composer of the ''
rebetiko'' genre. He was born and died in Agia Sofia,
Piraeus. 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) 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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