Michalis Genitsaris () (15 June 1917 – 11 May 2005) was a
Greek
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singer and composer of the ''
rebetiko
Rebetiko (, ), plural rebetika ( ), occasionally transliterated as rembetiko or rebetico, is a term used to designate previously disparate kinds of urban Greek music which in the 1930s went through a process of musical syncretism and develope ...
'' genre. He was born and died in Agia Sofia,
Piraeus
Piraeus ( ; ; , Ancient: , Katharevousa: ) 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 Saronic Gulf in the Ath ...
. He was known as the last pre-war ''rebetiko'' singer. He composed such songs as ''Ego mangas fenomouna''("I looked like a tough guy"), ''Enas leventis esvise'' ("A great lad has faded", dedicated to
Aris Velouchiotis
Athanasios Klaras (; August 27, 1905 – June 15, 1945), better known by the ''nom de guerre'' Aris Velouchiotis (), was a Greek journalist, politician, member of the Communist Party of Greece, the most prominent leader and chief instigator of th ...
) 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 male songwriters
20th-century Greek male singers
Greek rebetiko singers
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