Θανάσης Παπακωνσταντίνου | zh

Thanasis Papakonstantinou (Θανάσης Παπακωνσταντίνου), born in Tyrnavos, Greece on 26th April 1959, is a Greek singer and composer. He studied Mechanical Engineering in Thessaloniki, which he practised for a while before devoting himself exclusively to music. After military service, he had a spell of handcrafting traditional Greek musical instruments. Now living in Larissa, he writes music in the Greek folk style, stemming from his own recollections of traditional songs his parents sang while working in the field, often combining them with modern and rock elements. He either writes his own lyrics or uses poems. He has collaborated with numerous notable...

Βασίλης Παπακωνσταντίνου [Vasilis Papakonstantinou] (b. 1950) is a Greek singer. He was born in a little village in Arkadia, though his family moved to Athens in 1957. He began singing at the age of twenty, and after his military service in 1973 he went to Munich, Germany, to participate and sing at anti-dictator rallies attended by many Greeks. In 1974 he met Μίκης Θεοδωράκης [Mikis Theodorakis] in Paris, and two years later they began to collaborate. He returned to Athens in 1974, and he started his professional career. He participated in Μάνος Λοΐζος' Τα τραγούδια του δρόμου (Ta tragoudia tou...