He recorded a series of hits by well-known creators such as “Let’s go into the unknown”, “Last night”, “Turn around”, “What if you get lost”, “Marina’s song”.
Stella Greka, the legendary singer and actress who at the peak of her career gave up everything and left for America, passed away permanently here in Greece where she had been living since 1987.
The unpleasant news was made known by Argyris Nastopoulos with a post on his Instagram with a photo of them together from a birthday and a simple “Have a good trip Stella”.
Check out this Instagram post.
Greka was born in Athens in 1922 as Stella Laskou and was one of nine children in a poor family. Her father was a stage designer and had friendly relations with important people in the field, such as Pantelis Horn.
She appeared young on the capital’s music scene and from the age of 8 the Athenian press had mentioned her.
In 1942 she married the poet and director Orestes Lasko, who artistically christened her Stella Greka, because she did not want to sing as Stella Lasko.
He recorded a series of hits by well-known creators such as “Let’s go into the unknown”, “Last night”, “Turn around”, “What if you get lost”, “Marina’s song”. However, he refused to record “Two Green Eyes” of 1945, as he found the lyrics of Kostas Kyousis loose (something he later regretted) and “A Few Hearts Love”.
Laskos convinced her at that time to act in his film Broken Hearts (1945). And then he played in the film Forgotten Faces (1946) by Tzavellas, alongside Emilios Veakis, Giorgos Pappas and Lambros Konstandaras.
She continued her film career with only one more film, Marina, where she again took the lead role. The film, written by Sakellariou – Giannakopoulos and directed by the former, was a production of her best man Philopoimena Fino and was shown in March 1947. Greka had Dimitris Myrat by her side and again Lambros Konstandaras. It was a simple romance, but it became a huge success at the time, due to Sakellario’s direction and the songs she performed. And immediately after that he left Greece. At the peak of her career.
Having separated from Orestes Lasko in the meantime, in the fall of 1947 she immigrated to the USA, living with her brother Angelos in New York. In 1950, she married the Greek-American shipowner John Avgerinos, who was engaged in She devoted herself to the family and left behind the question of her career, which is why her involvement in singing in America was limited.
She only came to Greece for summer vacations on the islands, on her private boat. He visited the country professionally during the 1970s to record two albums for the Greek Columbia-EMI.
In 1973 and 1984 she appeared on Greek television as a guest of producer George Papastefanos. He also edited a collection of the singer’s recordings in America, which was released by LYRA in 1990 under the title The Songs of America.
While just in 2017 she gave an interview in her house in Dionysos to Kostas Pappas for the channel “Together in Canada”.
Source :Skai
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