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Christopher King acquired Greek citizenship: Honorary naturalization

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Christopher C. King took the oath of Greek citizenship before the Secretary General of Citizenship Athanasios Balerbas, in the presence of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

Her the American ethnomusicologist Christopher C. King was awarded Greek citizenship in a special ceremony held at Megaros Maximos.

Christopher C. King took the oath of Greek citizenship before the Secretary General of Citizenship Athanasios Balerbas, in the presence of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

The well-known producer was born and raised in southwestern Virginia in the United States and studied philosophy at Radford University. Distinguished ethnomusicologist and Grammy Award-winning producer, for the past ten years Christopher C. King has devoted his research in Greek folk song and especially in that of Epirus.

In 2018 he published the book “Lament from Epirus: An Odyssey into Europe’s Old Surviving Folk Music”.

His work is at the same time one trekking but also a brief history of the areaan anthropological study of its inhabitants.

Christopher C. King divides his time between the United States and Greece.

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