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She wrote the lyrics to many popular Greek songs, collaborating with composers like Vassilis Tsitsanis, Apostolos Kaldaras and Manos Hadjidakis; however, she didn't achieve major fame famous until her death in 1972. Her great contribution to Greek music through her exceptional ability in lyricism wasn't broadly known and recognized, although ...
"Soy" (Spanish pronunciation:; English: "I Am") is a song recorded by Argentine singer Lali serving as the lead single for her second studio album Soy and was released on May 5, 2016. The song was written by Espósito along with music producers Pablo Akselrad, Luis Burgio and Gustavo Novello, and was produc
Classic laïkó, as it is known today, was the mainstream popular music of Greece during mainly the 1960s and 1970s. Laïkó evolved from the traditional Greek music of the ancient and the medieval Greek era and was established until the present day. [1] [2] Laïkó was dominated by singers such as Nikos Xanthopoulos and composers such as Mimis ...
Taino quickly wrote the song in response, with the chorus "Yo soy boricua pa' que tú lo sepas" (I am Puerto Rican, just so you know) as its central theme. [ 5 ] The song did not gain immediate popularity but later became famous when boxer Félix "Tito" Trinidad used it as his entrance music for important matches.
Cast as a "nerdy" tween with a "sassy" and "confident" attitude, she traverses the "mean streets" of Brooklyn, facing up to taunts and bullies. [2] [1] The music video, released on September 7, 2016, [5] garnered over one million views upon its September 2016 release and logged over 6.5 million views as of early November. [1]
His signature song "O Aetos" is one of the most popular songs in Greek music history. Sfakianakis was the best selling artist of the 1990s and stands as the best selling Greek artist of his generation. [3] However, in the 2000s he faced a significant commercial decline. He then embarked on the Matomeno Dakry album trilogy (2009–2011).
The lyre is the dominant folk instrument along with the laouto, violin, tsampouna, and souravli with widely varying Greek characteristics. Representative musicians and performers of Nisiotika include: Mariza Koch , credited with reviving the field in the 1970s, Yiannis Parios , Domna Samiou and the Konitopoulos family (Giorgos and Vangelis ...
Pentozali music is instrumental: the main tune is played either on the violin or on the pear-shaped, bowed Cretan Lyra, to the accompaniment of a Laouto, played not in a melodic but in a more percussive or rhythmic fashion. It is the soloist who usually directs the flow of the dance: he improvises to signal the first dancer to improvise too ...