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Mihalis Daskalakis
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Michalis Daskalakis (Piraeus, 1914 - Pikermi, Attica, 1 February 2004) was a Greek singer, songwriter and instrumentalist of rebetiko music. He was born in 1914 in Piraeus. He graduated from the Scholarcheio in Hadjikyriakeio and then got a job, while in his free time he would go to his family's tavern "O Daskalakis", which was located near the church of Agios Nikolaos in the port of Piraeus. There in the tavern he would listen to the musicians who came and fell in love with the bouzouki. In 1943, together with his brother Yiannis, he opened a shop in Athens called "To Kare tou Assou". After the end of World War II and the Liberation, he worked in many popular music centers in Athens, such…
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NRThe history of Greek folk music - and the history of Greece - starting with the bouzouki: Bayanteras, Tsitsanis, Vamvakaris, Daskalakis, Rosa Eskenazi, Eftychia Papagiannopoulou, Vicky Moscholiou, Marinella, Theodorakis, Hadjidakis. The film, which was rejected by the then Thessaloniki Festival (by the Censorship Committee in 1973, by the Preliminary Committee in 1974), focuses on the sound that served as a compass for great artists, sealed important historical moments of the country and served as a mirror of its era.
Bouzouki
1973
6.2His advanced studies in philosophy have caused Stephanos to view all people as his inferiors. When he is discharged from the -obligatory in Greece- army service, he thinks the world belongs to him. In reality all that does belong to him are debts left by his mother who has just died and rejection by his formerly devoted girlfriend. Nikos, an old high school classmate, reappears in his life.
The Heart of the Beast
2005