Eleonora zouganeli

Eleni tsaligopoulou
Dynata dynata eleftheria arvanitaki
Dimitra galani

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Born and raised in the Kallipoli area in Piraeus, Eleftheria Arvanitaki's family's origins can be traced to the islands of Ikaria and Paxoi. Her first collaboration was with the 'Opisthodromiki Kompania', a group of amateur Rebetika musicians who played songs by Tsitsanis, Papaioanou, Vamvakaris and others. Her first appearance in recording was her participation in the record Ta barakia by Vangelis Germanos. Simultaneously she started performing live with Dionysis Savvopoulos.

Following the break up of the group 'Opistodromiki Kompania', she collaborated with Nikos Mamangakis, the group 'Chanome giati remvazo', Stavros Logaridis, Nikos Xydakis, Stamatis Spanoudakis and Stamatis Kraounakis. She also performed vocals in Mano Hadjidaki's record Seirios and collaborated with the originally Armenian group 'Night Arc', Dimitris Zerboudakis, Dimitris Papadimitriou and numerous other composers such as Zikas, Kougioumtzis, Mavroudis, Nikolopoulos and Kypourgos.

She has performed at the Womad Festival and numerous jazz and ethnic music fes

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Line up

Alexandros Ktistakis (drums, percussion)
Dimitris Tsakas (sax, guitar)
George Georgiadis (bass)
Giannis Kirimkiridis (piano, keyboards)
Thomas Konstantinou (bouzouki, lute, oud, cumbus)

Introduction
"Rembetiko" is a musical tradition in Greece which has revealed some of the greatest singers in the Greek music scene. Rough, almost raw sometimes, the vocal performance of Rembetiko, reflects a tradition born in turbulent times, at the big ports of Greece, Piraeus and Syros, around the infamous spots of the Greek underworld. An important possession that the Greek refugees brought along with them, when they were forced away from Smyrna and the coast line of Minor Asia, during the Greek-Turkish war of 1919-22, was that kind of music. Rembetiko described glenti (feast), pain, nostalgia, tenderness, death and love, all expressed together in one song. A collective life experience became expressed in voice and music, a musical identity of Greece to travel around the world within its countless music genres.
The strength of Elefthe

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Eleftheria Arvanitaki

Greek folk singer

Musical artist

Eleftheria Arvanitaki (Greek: Ελευθερία Αρβανιτάκη) (born 17 October 1957 in Piraeus) is a Greek folk singer. She originates from the island of Icaria. Arvanitaki has worked with musicians such as Cesária Évora, Arto Tunçboyacıyan and Ara Dinkjian. On 14 March 2010 Alpha TV ranked her the sixth top-certified female artist in the nation's phonographic era (since 1960).^[1]

Career

Arvanitaki started her singing career in 1980, by joining the group Opisthodromiki Kompania (Οπισθοδρομική Κομπανία, "Retrograde Company") and in 1981 she had her first guest appearance on a CD, by being featured in the album of Vangelis Germanos titled "Ta Barakia". She broke away from the group and started a solo career in 1984 with her album Eleftheria Arvanitaki.

In August 2004, she participated in the closing ceremony of the Athens Olympics.

She has performed in several WOMAD and other festivals. In 2006 she took part in the Christmas concert "Frostroses" in Reykjavik, Iceland as a part of a group of singers named