Dionysis Savvopoulos

Dionysis Savvopoulos Greek ???????? ??????????? born 2 December 1944 is a prominent Greek singersongwriter Savvopoulos was born in the city of Thessaloniki Greece December 1944 in a middleclass family He passed his university entrance exams and enrolled in the Aristotle University to study law but after his first year of his studies his passion for music and politics led to an argument with his father and he dropped out in 1963 Savvopoulos then hitchhiked on a truck to Athens and took various odd jobs including working as a nude model for students in the Athens School for Fine Arts and as a journalist in a newspaper In Athens he began singing and playing guitar in various night clubs and became closely associated with the socalled Greek New Wave Although Savvopoulos was not famed for his voice his talent in songwriting impressed Alekos Patsifas the director of LYRA record company in Greece which was specializing in artists of the Greek New Wave who signed him Savvopoulos remained with this label until 1983 Savvopoulos debut album To Fortigho The truck alluding to his hitchhiking experience came out in 1966 Although critically wellreceived it failed to chart allegedly selling only 3000 copies Despite this he was kept on the labels roster and continued with a string of highly successful albums with selfpenned songs combining arrangements reminiscent of early Frank Zappa and politically incisive lyrics in the style of Bob Dylan with folk tunes from Macedonia Thrace and Rebetiko music Savvopoulos has been noted for being politically active throughout his career in music In 1967 Savvopoulos was briefly imprisoned and beaten for his political convictions by the Greek military junta of 19671974 led by the dictator George Papadopoulos Most of his songs are written by himself both lyrics and music He is still singing but no longer composing since his last studio album as a songwriter O chronopios Throughout his career he has sung Greek rock Laïko Greek folk music and Rebetika He is married to Aspasia Arapidou They have two sons Kornilios and Romanos and two grandsons Dionisis and Andreas Source Article Dionysis Savvopoulos from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30