Today's greek music and artists

Music in Greece is of unbelievable diversity due to the creative Greek assimilation of different influences of the Eastern and Western cultures of Asia and Europe. Music is an important aspect of the daily Greek culture. It has a long history dating from the Antiquity, during which poetry, dancing and music were inseparable and played an important part in the ancient Greek's everyday life. The Greek tragedy used music as one of its component elements. Then, with the fall of Ancient Greece and the evolution of the Byzantine Empire, Greece music got a more ecclesiastical approach. In the 400 years of Ottoman domination, it was influenced by the eastern sounds. It got reborn only in the 19th century with the opera compositions of Nikolaos Mantzaros (1795-1872) and Spyros Samaras (1861-1917). From that moment on, Greece produced many talented artists, including great composers to fabulous interprets. Music in Greece became an expression and a testimony of the slavery years, a weapon of opposition against the colonel authority and a way to express love, death, human fears, that accompanied the Greeks in their everyday life. 

JAZZ-SWING

GANDJO DILO

 Gadjo Dilo is a group of six talented musicians, eager to create, to experiment and to recommend the gypsy jazz or otherwise jazz manouche music in the wider Greek public, combining it with the sounds of  old Greek songs. They became famous in the last two years, but the core of their group was formed several years ago, in 2009.

                                                                                                                                                         

IMAM BAILDI 

 Imam Baildi (Ιμάμ Μπαϊλντί) is a Greek band that was formed by brothers Orestis & Lysandros Falireas in 2007 when the two brothers started experimenting with remixes of Greek songs from the '40s, '50s and '60s.The name of the group derives from the traditional Mediterranean dish ιμάμ μπαϊλντί. Falireas brothers stem from a family with a long connection with rebetiko: their father owned both a record label specialising in the genre and a popular record shop in central Athens with a vast 78rpm vinyl collection. The band represents the idea of mixing rebetiko with different types of music.Their self-tiled debut was released in 2007 on EMI Greece to great critical acclaim, followed by more than 130 live shows in Greece around Europe that included support slots for Massive Attack, Ojos De Brujo and Gogol Bordello and performances at France’s Transmusicales de Rennes and Denmark’s Roskilde Festival.

Imam Baildi released their second collective effort in 2010 bearing the name ‘The Imam Baildi Cookbook’. Along with original compositions and mixes it features collaborations with LA hip-hoppers Delinquent Habits and Maxwell Wright of Ojos de Brujo fame, Barcelona’s flamenco/world/hip-hop darlings.

They released their third album "Imam Baildi III" in 2014. It consists of Freestyle, Downtempo, Folk and Hip Hop styles.

ARTISTIC-POP

jOHN HAROULIS

John Haroulis (Lasithi Crete, January 13, 1981) is a Greek musician and performer involved in artistic, rock and traditional Cretan music.
He has recorded three solo albums, one of which was gold and a live album, which went to number 1 of Greek music chart.
He has worked with many composers and singers.
John Haroulis has performed live in tents and musical concerts in Athens, Thessaloniki, the Greek province and Cyprus. In March 2015 he left for his first European tour in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and Holland.

NATASHA BOFILIOU

Natasha was born in Athens in 1983, where she grew up and graduated from schools Duke. She also has native of Sicily and the Phanar in Istanbul. She studied political science at the Law School of Athens. She has a piano diploma and theoretical courses from the Greek Conservatory.

In December 2014 she released the \ "First Words \" (Feelgood Records) music Themis Karamouratidis, lyrics Ulysses John and interpretations of Natasha Bofiliou and Socrates Malamas.
In June 2015 and after an absence of several months, she makes a return with a big summer tour, in which concerts were held in Greece and Cyprus, which resulted in three successful concerts in London and Dubai in autumn.
Currently, she is in the process of the her next disc , always with Themis Karamouratidis and Gerasimos Evaggelatos

ELEONORA ZOUGANELI

Eleonora Zouganeli is Greek singer. She was born on February 1, 1983. She is the daughter of John Zouganeli and Isadora Sideris.
She interpreted the song \ "It is love \" from the soundtrack of the television series "The Island" with music by Minos Matsas lyrics of Victoria Hislop.
In December 2011 released the album titled "I told my friends...". The double cd contains more than 30 songs.
Among other things, it includes the song "See you," the adaptation of the Italian success "VASTARDO" in Greek lyrics of Sunny Baltzi.
Along with the release of the cd "I told my friends ..." Eleonora Zouganeli participate in the fourth CD of the series "Worthy Word" which is curated by George Dalaras and Michalis Koumbios and is dedicated to Elias Katsouli with the song "Birds traveling "duet with George Dalaras.
 2013 was the year of her third  disc \ "REMOVAL NOW \", from which stood out the title track, and the \ "Only I \" and \ "Your perseverance \".

PANOS MOUZOURAKIS

Panos Mouzourakis is a Greek artist, singer, songwriter and actor.In December 2013 he released tan album that  was titled: \ "aim \". In the same period up to January 2014 he was involved in the music scene of Helen Gasouka \ "Burlesque \", together with Thanasis Alevra and One of a Kind, presented at Fuzz.In March 2014 he was added to the company of the night brave
-GkaGkaNtin - Piraeus Coast side of Dionysis Savvopoulos, Lavrentis Macheritsas and Yannis Zouganeli.In June 2014 he presents together with Pantelis Abazi their duet Madame Madame in a subversive figure, choreographed by Fokas Evaggelinos in Mad VMA.In summer of 2014 he toured with Dionisis Savvopoulos and Lavrenti Macheritsas performing sold out concerts.
                                                                                                  

 

KOSTIS MARAVEGIAS

Kostis Maravegias or (Greek: Κωστής Μαραβέγιας), also known by his stage name Maraveyas Ilegal or simply Maravegias is a Greek singer-songwriter, composer, performer, director, writer and television presenter. He plays accordion, piano, guitar, Hammond, FARFISA and sings in Greek, English, Spanish and Italian. Although he began his music career in the underground and alternative music scene in Italy and Greece, Maravegias nowadays is considered as a pop star in Greece, due to his latest big success.

FOLK

PADELIS PADELIDIS

Padelis Padelidis was a Greek singer, songwriter and composer.
Although he had no relevant studies and was self-taught, he taught himself to play musical instruments. Still he maintained with his family a OPAP agency in Nea Ionia.For four years he sang in small clubs. Also he filmed songs that he and his friends wrote and add them to Youtube, through which he became famous.His first album was the disc called alcoholic strength nights which was released in 2012 and was double platinum. Great success  the song -Δεν ταιριάζουμε σου λέω-,
During its presence in the music scene, the Pantelidis wrote 48 songs, of which six sang other artists such as Paola, John Plutarxos, Helen Hatziduou the Amaryllis and Irene Papadopoulou.
Pantelidis died the morning of  February 18, 2016 in a car accident in Vouliagmenis Avenue. He was driving the car that left the path of impacting on safety barriers and were evacuated after the vehicle was transferred to General Hospital Asklipio Voula where found the death.

    PAOLA





Paola was born on June  25, 1982 in Thessaloniki and grew up in Sykia Chalkidiki. . Paola began singing at 14 years after the proposal of the owner of the restaurant and the approval of her parents. At 19 she sang the entertainment center "bug " in Thessaloniki. In 2005 she published her first album. In 2012 she released the album "Gine ena mazi mou", which became gold.On April 24, 2013 she  released the album "Meta ta mesanixta»  which became platinum within three days. In December 2013 she released the album 'I moni alitheia'. Particular "Hold On " was the 10th biggest radio hit of 2013. On November 17, 2014 she released her new song 'Exo kia zoi'.