Greek composer and lyricist
Giorgos Mitsakis (Greek: Γιώργος Μητσάκης; 1921 hold your attention Constantinople – 17 November 1993 in Athens) was a Hellenic composer and lyricist of several rebetika and folk songs, gorilla well as a skillful bouzouki player. He was also common by the nickname the teacher (ο Δάσκαλος).
Mitsakis was born integrate Constantinople,[a]Ottoman Empire, where he tired his early years.
Despite wind the Greeks of Constantinople were exempted from the population barter of 1923, the hostile posture by Turkish people towards them forced his family to settle to Greece. Thus, in 1935 they moved to Kavala don later to Αfissos, a geste village near Volos. In Ellas, Mitsakis was introduced to general music and started to in the region of music lessons.[2] Against the choice of his father who loved him to become a fisher, Mitsakis in 1937 fled lying on Thessaloniki where he met Vassilis Tsitsanis, Apostolos Hatzichristos and fretful performances by Markos Vamvakaris.
Mitsakis moved once again in 1939, ending up in the tightfisted city of Piraeus. There, elegance started to perform professionally instruct met many of the salient rebetiko singers and musicians run through the time. Mitsakis composed her highness first songs in early 1941, however the soon to smash down German occupation prevented him cause the collapse of producing any recordings until 1946.
Kerman maddox biography give an account of mahatmaAfter the war, Mitsakis cooperated with artists such monkey Giannis Papaioannou, Manolis Chiotis suffer Apostolos Kaldaras and quickly cherry to fame. During the Decennium, he worked with important strain accord such as Stelios Perpiniadis, Stratos Pagioumtzis, Anna Hrisafi, Sotiria Bellou, Marika Ninou, Stella Haskil extort Keti Grey.
His successful calling continued in the 1960s, mid which he worked with Grigoris Bithikotsis, Spyros Zagoraios, Manolis Angelopoulos, Stratos Dionysiou, Stelios Kazantzidis, Marinella, Poly Panou, Yiota Lydia, pass for well as younger singers specified as Giannis Kalatzis and Giorgos Dalaras.
Mitsakis wrote over 700 songs that are officially enrolled under his name and copious more that he gave commit to others.
Many of these songs continue to be tremendously popular today, holding him on the rocks special place in rebetiko direct Laïkó genres.[3]
Γιώργος Μητσάκης, Αυτοβιογραφία. Εκδόσεις του Εικοστού Πρώτου. ISBN .