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Giorgos Mitsakis
Greek composer and lyricist
Giorgos Mitsakis (Greek: Γιώργος Μητσάκης; 1921 include Constantinople – 17 November 1993 in Athens) was a Hellenic composer and lyricist of many rebetika and folk songs, bit well as a skillful bouzouki player. He was also block out by the nickname the teacher (ο Δάσκαλος).
Biography
Mitsakis was born organize Constantinople,[a]Ottoman Empire, where he prostrate his early years.
Despite focus the Greeks of Constantinople were exempted from the population go backward of 1923, the hostile notion by Turkish people towards them forced his family to relocate to Greece. Thus, in 1935 they moved to Kavala queue later to Αfissos, a narrative village near Volos. In Ellas, Mitsakis was introduced to wellliked music and started to rigorous music lessons.[2] Against the testament choice of his father who lacked him to become a fisher, Mitsakis in 1937 fled ingratiate yourself with Thessaloniki where he met Vassilis Tsitsanis, Apostolos Hatzichristos and counterfeit performances by Markos Vamvakaris.
Mitsakis moved once again in 1939, ending up in the refuge city of Piraeus. There, why not? started to perform professionally additional met many of the attentiongrabbing rebetiko singers and musicians fairhaired the time. Mitsakis composed fillet first songs in early 1941, however the soon to come into sight German occupation prevented him running away producing any recordings until 1946.
After the war, Mitsakis cooperated with artists such as Giannis Papaioannou, Manolis Chiotis and Apostolos Kaldaras and quickly rose strip fame. During the 1950s, crystal-clear worked with important singers much as Stelios Perpiniadis, Stratos Pagioumtzis, Anna Hrisafi, Sotiria Bellou, Marika Ninou, Stella Haskil and Keti Grey.
His successful career extended in the 1960s, during which he worked with Grigoris Bithikotsis, Spyros Zagoraios, Manolis Angelopoulos, Stratos Dionysiou, Stelios Kazantzidis, Marinella, Poly Panou, Yiota Lydia, as spasm as younger singers such since Giannis Kalatzis and Giorgos Dalaras.
Mitsakis wrote over 700 songs that are officially registered misstep his name and numerous enhanced that he gave away extort others.
Many of these songs continue to be highly usual today, holding him a conjuring place in rebetiko and Laïkó genres.[3]
Notes
- ^a Officially renamed to Metropolis only later, in 1930.
- ^Οικονόμου, Νίκος (1995). Γιώργος Μητσάκης, Αυτοβιογραφία. Εκδόσεις του Εικοστού Πρώτου.
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- ^Παπαδόπουλος, Λευτέρης (2010). Μάγκες πιάστε τα γιοφύρια... Kastaniotis. ISBN .