About his collaboration with the singers for whom he has written songs and also about the pressures he received from Nikos Karvelas to stop his collaboration with Despina Vandi and start working with Anna Vissi, he spoke, among other things, at Christmas noon , in the show “Studio 4”, the well-known creator Phoebus.

“I have sold 6 million disc copies. Music is my whole life basically. I forget and confuse many things. Many times they show me a song, I ask whose it is and they tell me that I wrote it. How can you remember what you did 20-30 years ago?” Phoebus admitted.

“That’s when I realized and said: ‘how did I write this?’ I couldn’t even remember it. The tragic thing is that at all the awards I was unhappy, miserable, I couldn’t enjoy them. I’m never 100% happy with the result, I always think I could have done it better,” he later confessed.

“The first artist I worked with was Vicky Haritou. Then, I “got involved” with Karvelas. A friend called me and told me to take him because he had a problem with the heat and my car had air conditioning. I took him to his house and he says: ‘I heard you write songs, give me something to listen to’. After listening to me, he said I was good and suggested that I drop by his house the next day.

He heard different tracks of mine and recognized my talent. We had a good relationship, despite what was written in the media. I admired him and I continue to admire him,” revealed Phoebus, referring to his beloved colleague. “He called me a few years later to write about Anna. Before that, I had already prepared some demos for her aimed abroad. He said to me: ‘Only you can sit on my throne’. Anna had to put out three records, and I wanted to be more involved with him. I hadn’t met Despina yet,” he added.

“As things progressed, conditions created tensions. Many media wanted to fight us, but I never got involved in a fight with Nikos”. In the end, Phoebus remembers Karvelas’ suggestions: “He said ‘leave the monkey and come to the original’.” Although Despina is a good friend, my priority was to work with him,” Phoebus concluded.