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Spiros Exaras is a Greek guitarist, composer, producer and arranger. [1] [2] [3]
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Spiros Exaras is a Greek guitarist, composer, producer and arranger. [1] [2] [3]
He has performed and recorded with Mariah Carey [4] Shirley Bassey [5] Mark Murphy [6] Gerardo Velez, Philip Hamilton, Charles Blenzig, Mike Pope, Andy Middleton, Randy Brecker, Joel Rosenblatt, Jon Benitez, Tessa Souter, Dave Valentin, Arturo O'Farrill Evanthia Reboutsika, Mario Frangoulis, Kostas Hatzis, Elias Andriopoulos, Alkistis Protopsalti, Yannis Markopoulos, Kostas Karalis, Antonis Kaloyannis, Tom Schuman, Mark Egan, Tom 'Bones' Malone, George Dalaras, Manto, Petros Gaitanos, Alexia, Doros Dimosthenous, George Andreou, Elli Paspala, Kamerata Orchestra, Orchestra of Colors, Greek National Radio & Television Orchestra among others.
Kyriaki Papadopoulou, known by her stage name Marinella, is a Greek singer whose career has spanned several decades. She is well regarded due to her impressive vocal range. Since the beginning of her professional singing career in 1956, she has released 66 solo albums, and has also been featured on many albums by other musicians. From 1956 to 2024, Marinella remained active for 68 years, performing in concerts and weekly shows at nightclubs. On September 25, 2024, at the age of 86, she suffered a severe hemorrhagic stroke while performing at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus in Athens, collapsing on stage. Since then, she has been hospitalized, showing minimal interaction with her environment.
George Dalaras is a Greek singer and musician. He is one of the most prominent figures of Greek music. In October 2006, he was selected as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency.
George Theofanous is a Greek Cypriot composer and producer. He has sold more than two million records and written more than 500 songs in the 1990s and 2000s. Recording artists for whom he has written and produced for include Nana Mouskouri, George Dalaras. His work has received a total of nine Arion Awards, which was an award show by IFPI Greece. He served as a judge for six seasons of the Greek edition of The X Factor, participating in the 2008–2009, 2009–2010, 2010–2011, 2016, and 2019 seasons.
Haris Alexiou is a Greek singer whose career has spanned over 5 decades. She is one of the most popular singers in Greece. She has worked with important Greek songwriters and composers, has performed at top musical theatres all over the world, and has received several awards. She has recorded over thirty albums and has been featured on albums of other musicians. On 14th March 2010, Alpha TV ranked Alexiou as the first top-certified female artist in Greece in the phonographic era. She is the highest selling Greek female artist and third overall, behind George Dalaras and Yiannis Parios. Eight of her personal albums released between 1977 and 2003 have totaled 1.5 million sales, the only Greek female artist to do so.
George Perris is a Greek-French international singer. He is multilingual and sings in English, Greek, French and Spanish.
Socrates Drank the Conium, known also as Socrates, was a Greek rock band that formed in 1969 and achieved success in the 1970s. Influenced by heavy blues and rock bands like The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Cream, the band melded the unorthodox time signatures and orchestration of progressive rock and the intensity of blues and hard rock music, creating a unique sound that distinguished them from other Greek rock acts of that period. Outside Greece, Socrates is best known for Phos, their 1976 landmark collaboration album with Vangelis.
Mazi is the name of a live Greek album by singers Marinella and George Dalaras. The concert was recorded at the Athens Concert Hall in November 2002. It was released in the 18th of March, 2003 in Greece by Minos EMI and it went Platinum selling over 40,000 units.
Ammos itane... is a studio album by Greek singer Marinella. It was entirely composed by Nikos Antypas in a folk style, with lyrics by Lina Nikolakopoulou. Released on 30 March 2004 in Greece and Cyprus by EMI Records, the album went gold, selling over 20,000 units.
Achilles Liarmakopoulos is a Greek trombonist. He has been a member of the Canadian Brass since 2011.
Asteris Koutoulas is a Greek-Romanian event and music producer, publicist, translator, filmmaker and author. He was the manager of Mikis Theodorakis and the event producer of Gert Hof. Koutoulas rose to prominence as a director when his documentary fiction film "Recycling Medea: Not an Opera Ballet Film" won the Cinema for Peace Most Valuable Documentary Film Award in 2014.
Andriana Babali is a Greek singer and songwriter.
Akis Katsoupakis is a Greek musician, arranger and record producer.
His most commercially acclaimed album is Sokratis Malamas's O Fylakas ki o Vasilias (2000) which includes the classic Prigkipesa.
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1941.
Lefteris Bournias Greek Λευτέρης Μπουρνιάς is a Greek-American clarinetist and leader of Apollo Orchestras.
Carolina Calvache is a jazz pianist, arranger and composer from Colombia.
Eleni Tsaligopoulou is a Greek singer of popular music who, in the course of a 30-year career, has maintained a position as one of her country's best-selling recording artists.
Giorgos Mitsakis was a Greek composer and lyricist of numerous rebetika and folk songs, as well as a skillful bouzouki player. He was also known by the nickname the teacher.
Angelo Avramakis is a Greek musician and bouzouki player. Born in Serres, Greece, he has spent most of his life in Australia. He is considered the leading bouzouki player in Australia and among the top bouzouki players in the world.
Giorgos Sabanis is a Greek singer-songwriter and athlete. He was the runner in the segment honouring of all previous Olympiads, at the 2004 Summer Olympics opening ceremony. Giorgos Sabanis is an athletics national champion at 100 m, with 14 Pan-Hellenic gold medals and other individual distinctions. After leaving his career as an athlete, he became one of the most famous Greek performers.
Korina Legaki is a Greek singer. She trained in classical and jazz singing, piano and orthophony, and participated in Spyros Sakkas's Vocal Art Workshop. A multilingual and multicultural persona, she has recorded six solo records with original material as well as covers of Greek and foreign composers. She has recorded and performed with musicians, composers, singers and ensembles across several genres from free jazz to traditional and from academic to ethnic. She has sung in theaters, concert halls and various venues throughout Greece and abroad, including the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, the Athens Concert Hall, the Zappeion, the temple of Poseidon in Sounio, the Anglican Church of St. Paul's and the European Parliament. At the same time, she has undertaken significant volunteering work, joining forces on stage and in studios with refugee children.