September 26, 2024
Arts, Culture, FEATURED
The Grande Dame of the Greek music, Marinella, suffered a brain stroke while performing on the stage of Herodion Ancient Theater in downtown Athens on Wednesday night. She has been in the Intensive Care Unit of a private hospital also on Thursday, with the next 48 hours to be critical …
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July 18, 2024
Arts, Culture, FEATURED
Greek singer Marina Satti has partnered with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, to support refugee children and produced a breathtaking music video to remind us all the hardships of wars, violence and poverty that push thousands of people to leave their country and seek a better future often using risky …
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October 24, 2023
Arts, Culture, FEATURED
Marina Satti will represent Greece at the 68th Eurovision Song Contest, which will be held in the Swedish city of Malmö in May 2024, state broadcaster ERT announced on Tuesday. The music of the 36-year-old artist is mostly characterized by combining traditional Greek, Arab, Balkan and Anatolian sounds with urban …
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April 3, 2023
Arts, Culture
Rena Koumioti, one of the most significant singers of the New Wave genre in Greece passed away at the age of 81. Her death was announced in a post on Facebook on Monday. Koumioti was one of the foremost representatives of the Greek New Wave in the 1960s and 1970’s. …
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May 29, 2022
Arts, Culture
Popular Greek singer Dakis died on Sunday at the age of 79 after a long battle with cancer. Dakis whose real name was Vrassidas Haralambidis was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1943. In 1963 he came to Greece and a year later he started singing in clubs. He spoke six …
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February 11, 2021
Arts, Culture
Greece is mourning one of its most iconic singers Antonis Kalogiannis, who passed away at the age of 81 on Thursday. The artist stood out for his voice with a rich facet of colors and best known as a singer of political songs, against the colonels’ dictatorship. For many years …
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November 10, 2019
Arts, Culture
She bewitched with the flame in her eyes, her awesome expression and the song “Kaigomai – Kaigomai” in the film “Rebetiko.” Actress, singer and writer Sotiria Leonardou passed away on Saturday, following a rare illness that had her bed-ridden for several years. Leonardou was not a rebetiko singer but she …
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January 31, 2018
Very Mix
Popular singer Stelios Dionysiouand one Parliament employee have been arrested in the last 24 hours in downtown Athens for trying to pass through streets police had closed to traffic. Reason for the temporary closure were security measures due to the visit of the Israeli president in Athens. Stelios Dionysiou was …
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August 9, 2017
Culture
Popular Greek singer, song-writer, music composer, and illustrator Arleta passed away at the hospital of Evangelismos on Tuesday. She was 72. Unique presence with ballads, authentic voice, a creative personality. Her songs marked the Greek music scene for more than 50 years. Their is no Greek who did not sing …
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April 20, 2016
Culture
Greece’s Communication Control Council ruled that a specific line on a TV Commercial has to be taken out because of it is “sexist and dangerous” and it shows “criminal behavior” as “normal.” the complained was filed by the General Secretariat for the Gender Equality. The CCC refers to the line …
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February 18, 2016
Culture
Singer and songwriter Pantelis Pantelis, 33, killed in a car crash at 8:30 p.m. Thursday morning near the gate of the old Athens airport Ellinikon. Two young women who were also with him in the car have been taken to the hospital, one of them is reportedly seriously injured. According …
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February 5, 2014
Music
Jenny Vanou: one of the greatest Greek singers. The woman with the incredible crystal clear voice. The woman who was called “The Voice”. The ‘muse’ for many Greek composers. The star of the 1960’s and 1970’s. Jenny Vanou passed away at the age of 75 after long battle with cancer, …
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