Greek song is poorer than today… The great songwriter Dionysis Savvopoulos breathed his last on Tuesday night at the age of 81. The “Nionos” of the Greek song, was hospitalized in the last few days in a private clinic, while he was fighting cancer since 2001. Dionysis Savvopoulos is considered the pioneer of the school of Greek songwriters.
He was born in Thessaloniki on December 2, 1944. In 1963 he moved to Athens and left the Law School of Thessaloniki in order to pursue singing. He met great success from his early days as a musician and became popular in Greece. He had combined the music of American musicians such as Bob Dylan and Frank Zappa with Macedonian folk music and politically penetrating lyrics.
He started his career in 1964 and was politically active throughout his music career, performing in nightclubs with Maria Faradouri and Manos Loizos. During the Junta he was imprisoned twice for his political beliefs, in August and September 1967.
He wrote songs with political, romantic, but also satirical content. He presented in 1986-1987 the historical television show entitled “Long live the Greek song”.
Most of his songs are written by him, in lyrics and music.
He was married to Aspasia Arapidou (known by her endearment, Aspa, from his songs and performances) and had two sons, Kornelios (b. 1968) and Romanos (b. 1972), and two grandsons, Dionysis and Andreas.
Source: Skai
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