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Thanasis Papakonstantinou (Θανάσης Παπακωνσταντίνου), born in Tyrnavos, Greece on 26th April 1959, is a Greek singer and composer. He studied Mechanical Engineering in Thessaloniki, which he practised for a while before devoting himself exclusively to music. After military service, he had a spell of handcrafting traditional Greek musical instruments. Now living in Larissa, he writes music in the Greek folk style, stemming from his own recollections of traditional songs his parents sang while working in the field, often combining them with modern and rock elements. He either writes his own lyrics or uses poems. He has collaborated with numerous notable...

Vasilis Papakonstantinou was born 21 june 1950 in a village called Vasta, outside of Megalopolis, Arcadia. In 1957 he moved to Athens. His adolescence was indeed marked by the musical and social trends of the 1960s: Mikis Theodorakis, protest rock, international peace and liberation movements, while Greece was trying to quickly heal the wounds of the Greek Civil War. The Left pursued to shelter itself and give a perspective to the shattered disappointment by providing a sensitive and claiming culture. Vasilis Papakonstantinou became a follower without ever becoming a member of a leftist party. In 1973, after having served for...

Βασίλης Τσιτσάνης (Vassilis Tsitsanis; 18th January 1915–18th January 1984) was a Greek singer, composer, and musician. He became one of the leading composers and singers of rembetika, banned in Greece during its early years, and in the later laika style. Tsitsanis was born in Trikala. From a young age he was interested in music and learnt to play the mandolin, violin and the bouzouki that was the mainstay of so many of his songs. In 1936 he left for Athens to study Law, and by 1937, had made his first musical recording. During the German occupation of Greece, Tsitsanis lived...

Βασίλης Καρράς or Vasilis Karras (born November 12, 1953) is a Greek folk singer specializing in heavy Greek folk songs about lost love. Karras was born in Kokkinohori, near Kavala, Greece. He grew up in Thessaloniki. .

Vasilis Skoulas is a Cretan singer and lyra player who has been active in music for over 40 years. He was born in Anogia in Rethimnon, 1946. His family had already had a strong bond with traditional Cretan music as well as the arts in general. He is the grandson of Mihalis Skoulas - excellent lyrist of his time - and son of the famous folk painter Alkiviadis Skoulas also known as Griliou. He started learning how to play the lyra at the age of seven and by the age of 16 his talent had already made him known as...