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Lefteris Hapsiadis
Lefteris Hapsiadis ( el, Λευτέρης Χαψιάδης, 23 October 1953 – 2 October 2023) was a Greek contemporary songwriter, poet, and writer of novels. His literary work included a plethora of poems, three novels, as well as lyrics for 525 songs (registered with AEPI) in the contemporary Greek ''rebetika'', ''laïka'' (pop music) and ''elafra'' (light music) genres. He had collaborated with various music composers and had occasionally worked as a record producer. Among those, he had often worked with Christos Nikolopoulos with whom he had had a number of popular records (including Μία είναι η ουσία - ''One matter counts'', and Κάποια, κάπου, κάποτε - ''Some woman, somewhere, sometime''). Together they also created and produced a CD with 12 songs (December 1986), for which they were able to assemble together 11 popular Greek performers, including Giorgos Dalaras, Haris Alexiou, Stratos Dionysiou, Giannis Parios, and Manolis Mitsias. Nikolopou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feres, Evros
Feres ( el, Φέρες) is a town and a former municipality in the Evros regional unit, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Alexandroupoli, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 411.160 km2. Population 8,551 (2011). Feres is linked with the GR-2 or the Egnatia Odos (Alexandroupoli - Kavala - Thessaloniki - Kozani - Igoumenitsa) and the GR-51 (Alexandroupoli - Orestiada - Ormenio. The Evros river along with Turkey is to the east and also includes the entire delta to the south. History Feres grew out of the Theotokos Kosmosoteira monastery, erected in 1152 by the ''sebastokrator'' Isaac Komnenos, a son of the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos as his residence and final resting place. At the time, the site is described as deserted and densely overgrown, and was known as Bera ( gr, Βήρα, from a Slavic word for "marsh"). The monastery, which was surrounded by a double ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Costa Gavras
Costa-Gavras (short for Konstantinos Gavras; el, Κωνσταντίνος Γαβράς; born 12 February 1933) is a Greek-French film director, screenwriter, and producer who lives and works in France. He is known for films with political and social themes, such as the political thriller '' Z'' (1969), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and ''Missing'' (1982), for which he won the Palme d'Or and an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Most of his films have been made in French; however, six of them were made in English. His film ''Z'' was the first film, and one of the few, to be nominated for both the Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film. Early life Costa-Gavras was born in Loutra Iraias, Arcadia. His family spent the Second World War in a village in the Peloponnese, and moved to Athens after the war. His father had been a member of the Pro-Soviet branch of the Greek Resistance, and was imprisoned during the Greek Civil War. His f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1953 Births
Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Yugoslavia. ** The CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel first meets to discuss the UFO phenomenon. * January 15 – Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany, is arrested for spying. * January 19 – 71.1% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into ''I Love Lucy'', to watch Lucy give birth to Little Ricky, which is more people than those who tune into Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration the next day. This record has yet to be broken. * January 20 – Dwight D. Eisenhower is sworn in as the 34th President of the United States. * January 24 ** Mau Mau Uprising: Rebels in Kenya kill the Ruck family (father, mother, and six-year-old son). ** Leader of East Germany Walter Ulbricht announces that agriculture will ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Costas Ferris
Costas Ferris ( el, Κώστας Φέρρης; born 18 April 1935) is a Greek film director, writer, actor, and producer. He wrote the lyrics of Aphrodite's Child's album ''666''. His 1983 film '' Rembetiko'' won the Silver Bear at the 34th Berlin International Film Festival. Memberships and associations * European Film Academy, Member * Balkan Film Festival, President of the Jury, 1981 * Alexandria International Film Festival, President of the Jury, 1996 * European Script Fund, Member of the Board, London, 1996-1997 * Greek Directors Society, Member of the Board, (multiple years) * Greek Playwright Society, Member * Société des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Éditeurs de Musique (SACEM) * Federation of European Film Directors (''La Fédération Européenne des Réalisateurs de l'Audiovisuel'' ERA, Member, Greece Filmography Television documentaries and series Musicology Awards and nominations Thessaloniki Film Festival * 1974: Greek Competition Award (Best ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rembetiko (film)
''Rembetiko'' ( el, Ρεμπέτικο) is a 1983 film directed by Costas Ferris and written by Costas Ferris and Sotiria Leonardou, with original music by Stavros Xarchakos. The film is based on the life of rebetiko singer Marika Ninou and gained cult status in Greece. Plot This musical drama sweeps through a turbulent 40 years in popular singer Marika's (Sotiria Leonardou) life – and in the history of Greece – starting with the singer's birth in , in 1917. Marika was deported to Greece along with all th ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mangas
Manges (; Greek: μάγκες ; sing.: mangas , μάγκας ) is the name of a social group in the Belle Époque era's counterculture of Greece (especially of the great urban centers: Athens, Piraeus, and Thessaloniki). The nearest English equivalent to the term "mangas" is wide boy, or spiv. Overview Mangas was a label for men belonging to the Greek working class, behaving in a particularly arrogant/presumptuous way, and dressing with a very typical vesture composed of a woolen hat (''kavouraki'', καβουράκι), a jacket (they usually wore only one of its sleeves), a tight belt (used as a knife case), stripe pants, and pointy shoes. Other features of their appearance were their long moustache, their bead chaplets (κομπολόγια, sing. κομπολόι), and their idiosyncratic manneristic limp-walking (κουτσό βάδισμα). A related social group were the Koutsavakides (κουτσαβάκηδες, sing. κουτσαβάκης); the two terms are occasionally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vassilis Tsitsanis
Vassilis Tsitsanis ( el, Βασίλης Τσιτσάνης 18 January 1915 – 18 January 1984) was a Greek songwriter and bouzouki player. He became one of the leading Greek composers of his time and is widely regarded as one of the founders of modern Rebetiko and Laiko music. Tsitsanis wrote more than 500 songs and is still remembered as an extraordinary composer and bouzouki player. Biography Tsitsanis was born in Trikala, in Thessaly, Greece. His family came from the region of Epirus. He has been described as having been an Aromanian, and his surname Tsitsanis could indicate some connection with the Aromanians of Metsovo. He was the only figure performing rebetiko at his time coming from the Greek mainland and not from the islands. This may be the reason why he was sometimes known as "the Vlach" by his fellow musicians, although this could be due to the actually Aromanian ethnic origin of Tsitsanis (as Aromanians are known as Vlachs in Greece). It is also rumored that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Markos Vamvakaris
Márkos Vamvakáris ( el, Μάρκος Βαμβακάρης; 10 May 1905 – 8 February 1972), was a ''rebetiko'' musician. He is universally referred to by ''rebetiko'' writers and fans simply by his first name, Márkos. The great significance of Vamvakaris for the rebetiko is also reflected by his nickname: the "patriarch of the rebetiko".Vamvakaris, 1978. Biography Vamvakaris was born on 10 May 1905 in Ano Syros (or Ano Khora), Syros, Greece. He was the first of six children, while his family belonged to the sizeable Roman Catholic community of the island, the "Francosyrians", a name deriving from the colloquial Greek reference to West Europeans collectively as "the Franks". At the age of twelve, in the false belief that he was wanted by the police, Vamvakaris fled Syros for the port of Piraeus. He worked as a stevedore, a pit-coal miner, a shoe-polisher, a paperboy, a butcher, and other odd jobs. He heard a bouzouki player playing, and vowed that if he did not learn to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Litsa Diamanti
Litsa Diamanti ( el, Λίτσα Διαμάντη, born Euaggelia (Evangelitsa-Litsa) Cosmidou; 1949 in Kolonos, Athens) is a Greek laïko singer who became famous in the 1960s and 1970s. She has been described as the "child-wonder of the Sixties decade and the absolute diva of metapolitefsi." Her hits have been described as "all-time classics." Life and career Diamanti was born in 1949 in Kolonos, a suburb of Athens. She finished her schooling in Aegaleo. Her music career started early. At the age of 8 she learned to play the accordion and at 12 she was a member of a music group singing demotic songs. When she was 12 she published her first record ''An April evening'' (Ένα δειλινό του Απρίλη) with the ''Do Re'' record company. At the age of 13 she had already signed her first record contract with the Minos label which at the time was known as "Odeon Parlofon." In her early career with Minos she performed as vocal accompaniment for the stars of the company. Fam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orestiada
Orestiada ( el, Ορεστιάδα, formerly , ''Nea Orestiás''), is the northeasternmost, northernmost and newest city of Greece and the second largest town of the Evros regional unit of Thrace. Founded by Greek refugees from Edirne after the Treaty of Lausanne when the population exchange occurred between Turkey and Greece, in which the river Evros became the new border between the two countries. The population is around 20,000. History Ancient Orestiada was located in present-day Turkey, across the river from the current town of Kastanies. In ancient times, there was a small settlement on this site which legends claim was founded by Orestes, the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. In 1920, after the liberation of Thrace, the city was renamed Orestiada and conferred on Greece along with the whole of Western Thrace and most of Eastern Thrace under the Treaty of Sevres. Following the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922) and the Armistice of Mudanya (October 1922), the Western ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
