The last breath left the great folk singer Dimitris Mitropanos. Great loss his death on the music scene
Gone In 64 years of age the great folk singer Dimitris Mitropanos. Reportedly suffered a heart attack in the morning and transferred to Health. There the doctors after efforts brought him back, but eventually "fled" from pulmonary edema.
Note that this day one year before he died Nikos Papazoglou .
Dimitri was born in St. Mitropanos Monastery, a suburb outside of Trikala, which came from his mother-in April 2, 1948. He grew up without his father, whom he knew by age 29 years. Until the age of 16 he thought he had killed the guerrilla war, when a letter came which said that living in Romania. His father came from a village in the Karditsa Kappi. From an early age he worked in the summers to help the family finances. First as a waiter in his uncle's tavern after the ribbon cutting wood. After the third high school in 1964, down to Athens to live with his uncle Acharnon Street. Before finishing high school he started working as a singer.
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In the same age, after urging the Bithikotsis Gregory, whom he met at a gathering of his uncle's company, in which she sang, visited Columbia. Takis Lambropoulos There he met George Zambetas, which will work alongside the "dawn." In the Zambetas mentions as his great teacher and second father. As stated, "The Zambetas is the only man in the song who helped me without waiting for something. In all other colleagues got me something and gave something. " In 1966 Mitropanos We first encounter with Mikis Theodorakis and sung parts of the "Hellenism" and "Axion Esti" in a series of concerts in Greece and Cyprus.
In 1967, Mitropanos recording his first album 45ari with the song "Thessaloniki". This followed the recording of the song "Lost Lilac", but was censored by the junta and never released.
In the course mapped out on the street of folk artistic in 1972 is an important milestone: the Municipality Moutsis composer and lyricist-poet Manos Eleftheriou released the "Holy February" with the performers and rock Mitropanos Salpea, marking a milestone in Greek music . In July 1999, the Mitropanos Moutsis and will meet again on stage at the Odeon with Dimitra Galani and soprano Julia Souglakou music for two nights during the Festival of Athens. The concerts were recorded live and move in a double CD two months later. Here are "The Road to Kythera" George Katsaros and "the lives" of George Chatzinasiou, high-quality and high-profile in Greek society.
Long history of song in Greek, Dimitris Mitropanos collaborated with major artists of the folk and art song. George Zambetas, Mikis Theodorakis, Moutsis City, St. Kaldaras, Takis visitor ("we two", etc.) Christos Nikolopoulos ("make decisions" with lyrics by Lefteris Papadopoulos), Yiannis Spanos ("The Mitropanos Spano sings") was the composers with whom was associated business, building a career interwoven with Greek folk music tradition, until the late '80s.
Participation in Lakis Papadopoulos drives (with the song "To be in revenge") and Nick Portokaloglou ("Close I'm coming") reveal that the wide age range of interpretation and herald a shift in interpretation, which will lead to a series of discs that have greatly changed the meaning of good modern popular music. Partnerships with Marios Tokas and Philip written ("Our national loneliness" and "Together with a sun") combines the popular feeling and texture of the deeper meaning of the lyrics and use more sophisticated words. Furthermore, the effect of song in society and the commercial success brought such creations as tools and symptoms of the evolution of Greek society.
This very important collaboration with Thanos Mikroutsikos the album "In the centuries Paraga" lyrics Alki Alcaeus, vegetables Costas, Lina and George Nikolakopoulou Kakoulidis is turning the performer into more "artistic" trails, again keeping the identity of folk.
The Mitropanos continues on the same tracks, with songs Mikroutsikos, Korakakis, Moukidis, Papadimitriou, etc. in the second half of 1990's and early 2000. The latest work of Thessaly vocalist, singles "Tell me t 'your real music and lyrics by Stephen Korkolis Eleana Vrachali and Nikos Moraitis, but the live recording" There is the famous song "from the program - an ode to the national dance Greece along with Themis Adamantidis and Dimitris Basis, as well as the album "The tuning fork", which contains 12 folk songs and a blues ballad. songs from the album stands out the song "The Excursion" Miliokas of John, written for the return of the performer in the music industry after a serious health problem.
The latest album by Dimitris Mitropanos was the live recording of the concert in Odeon (September 2009), consisting of 2 CD titled "Songs of my life."
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