Gianna Fafaliou
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- Published on Thursday, 17 August 2017 07:37
Today with the topic culture I would like to introduce to you a musician. A woman, which is at the moment a quite hot topic on Chios. She has her origins on Chios and is know Greek-wide.
I firstly got to know about her through her daughter, whom I taught while working here in the Chios’ school.
Pantelis Thalassinos
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- Published on Monday, 14 August 2017 06:56
Pantelis Thalassinos is a Greek singer who was born in Piraeus in 1958. While his mother came from the island Serifos, his father was born on Chios. This is why the family moved to Chios when Pantelis was two years old. He went to school there and started playing the guitar at the age of seven, together with his brother Giannis. Their father's co-workers from the local yacht club taught them.
Maria Farantouri
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- Published on Tuesday, 13 June 2017 14:11
Maria Farantouri is a Greek singer who was born 28 November 1947 in Athens. She is also a political and cultural activist.
Maria Callas
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- Published on Wednesday, 16 August 2017 07:22
Do you know Maria Callas, the most renowned and influential opera singer of the 20th century? Maria Callas was born Cecilia Sophia Anna Maria Kalogeropoulos on December 2, 1923, in New York. She was the Greek-American soprano.
Nikos Vertis
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- Published on Wednesday, 12 July 2017 07:19
Today I want to introduce to you a famous Dutch-Greek singer. His Name is Nikolas or also Nikos Vertis. He was born on the 21st of August in 1976 in the Netherlands.
Nana Mouskouri
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- Published on Wednesday, 26 April 2017 15:27
Do you know Nana mouskouri (Nάνα Μούσχουρη) ? She is a Greek singer well known in France. Her entire name is Ioanna Mouskhouri and she is born in 1934 in Crete.
She sings since her childhood but she started to study music at 12 years old at the Conservatory of Athens. At 28 years old she started her career thanks to Manos Hadjidakis, and 2 years later she went to Paris and lived there.