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Popular Greek Performer Haris Alexiou Ends Singing Odyssey

Haris Alexiou, who has been one of the most popular singers in Greece since the 1970s, announced on Thursday that she will no longer sing publicly. "I cannot sing as well as I used to," she explained in an...

Greek Composer Thanos Mikroutsikos Dies at 72

Thanos Mikroutsikos one of the most influential Greek composers of recent decades has died on Saturday at the age of 72. Mikroutsikos died at the Athens' Metropolitan hospital where he was treated for cancer. In his last message on Facebook on...

Influential Greek Musician Lavrentis Machairitsas Dies at 63

Popular Greek rock musician Lavrentis Machairitsas, who has produced dozens of records over the decades, has died in the early hours of Monday, apparently of heart failure. He was 63. Machairitsas, who had been vacationing at his summer home in...

Greece's Leading Rock Guitarist Yannis Spathas Dies at 69

Considered one of the top guitarists in Greece and one of the founders of the Socrates music band, Yannis Spathas, passed away on Saturday at the age of 69. Yannis Spathas (November 30, 1950 -July 6, 2019) was a Greek...

Holocaust Survivor Leads Thessaloniki Remembrance March

Retracing the steps that brought him to the Auschwitz concentration camp 75 years ago, 92-year-old Holocaust survivor Moshe Aelion on Sunday took his wheelchair and joined others who marched in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki to send the...

Popular Greek Singer Yiannis Kalatzis Dies at 74

The popular Greek singer Yannis Kalatzis, famous especially during the 60s and the 70s has died at the age of 74. Yannis Kalatzis was born in Thessaloniki in 1943 and his career as a singer began in the early 1960s...

Prominent Greek Singer Antonis Vardis Passes Away

Famous Greek composer and singer Antonis Vardis passed away early Tuesday morning, September 2 at Hygeia Hospital where he was fighting his last battle with cancer. Thousands of fans and the singer's family and friends are mourning his passing all over Greece and...

Greek Violinist Giorgos Koros Dies Aged 91

The well know Greek violinist Giorgos Koros has died aged 91. He was born on March 19, 1923 at Andronianoi on the island of Evia, Greece. His father was a cantor and Koros grew up listening to Byzantine music. “I'm self-taught. My...

Konstantina Sues Cyprus On Confiscation

Lawyer Yiannakis Ioannou revealed on a Cypriot TV channel that the famous Cypriot singer Konstantina is going to take legal action against the Republic of Cyprus over bank deposits that will be confiscated as part of a government scheme...