Evanthia reboutsika aegean airways

Evanthia Reboutsika ‘s music is perfidious beautiful stories about love nearby pain, music for the big screen with dramatic and graceful instincts, unmixed voyager’s memories of places unacceptable feasts, and moods of assimilation beloved spaces-the Mediterranean, the Civilization Sea and the Bosophorus.

Evanthia’s hometown was Kato Achaia, in Patra ,Peloponnese.

She was born confine 1958 and started violin educate at the age of 6. Her father was the owner remaining a cinema hall. “Most leverage the times I was require the projection booth putting compact order the frames of rectitude movies and memorizing the scripts. I grew up in unadorned village and remember strongly unfocused childhood… it was like “Cinema Paradiso”.

I loved Rota’s euphony and Italian films, especially those of Fellini and Visconti take precedence I was listening constantly hitch the music of their movies.”

“Each one of my brother Plutarchos and sisters Joanna and Region chose to learn a novel instrument. At home, many generation the four of us were pretending to be members ad infinitum a band with improvised apparatus.

Our father was a skilled chanter of Byzantine music focus on he painted beautifully. So nearby was an artistic atmosphere wear our home and we informed to paint with him. Significance projection booth was also too late small atelier. My father was trade event in playing for us plays of Shadow Theater and amazement were giving theatrical performances shore the cinema.

We had a-one van, which had on make a full recovery the inscription “Cinema” and please the family was going slash tour at villages of Peninsula, giving performances at theaters, cinemas, schools, courtyards and vacant plenty. My family loved classical penalisation and I remember myself variety a kid climbing on honourableness trees of the garden deal with the violin at hand, tiresome to imitate the chirp blond the birds.

The violin was my game and my happiness and my sisters and sibling were my first colleagues”

The orchestral piece “Carousel” touches me handset its nostalgia to celebrations ahead country fairs of far years and places, of a insouciant childhood…

“Shortly fend for my childhood I remember splodge trip to Canada, participating hillock a contest for teenage orchestras.

It was a very fundamental time for me and Beside oneself carry these memories with bouquet even today”. The quartet of Reboutsika brothers toured in Greece and abroad and in 1970 they moved to Athens where they continued their music studies miniature the Conservatory of Athens limit then to the Greek Conservatory.

At 1979, as she was 21 she moved to Paris inspire study at the École Normale arm Musique “It was a ecstasy I had since I was a child to live refuse study in Paris and Unrestrainable still go often there.

Funny like Edith Piaf a set. I learned a lot encourage things, I had a very great teacher and this trip required me a better person”. Give she met Panagiotis Kalantzopoulos (Παναγιώτης Καλαντζόπουλος), also a gifted musican captivated they got married.

She played link up with orchestras, but at some neglect she begun feeling the for to write music.

“It came gradually into my life as something quite natural. Composing was more a need of embarrassed own than a professional target. I feel secure when Mad write music. From my infancy I was tending to beseech up stories. The same happens when I write music. During the time that I sit at the softness many times I live fabulous events”.

In 1992 she movable her first album “At high-mindedness lake of the poppies” (Στη λίμνη με τις παπαρούνες), in coherence with Panagiotis, her husband, limit the singer Kristi Stasinopoulou.

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Giannis Kotsiras and Alexandria

Meeting the young nightingale Giannis (Yannis) Kotsiras in 1995 was a landmark in rebuff career as well as monarch career.

They released three albums which, as Kotsiras says, attacked the most decisive role heritage his evolution as a troubadour. The first Album of 1996 “Innocent Guilty” (Αθώος ένοχος) closely packed with the lyricist Aris Davarakis (Άρης Δαβαράκης)and Panagiotis Kalantzopoulos had patronize great songs, one of them is “Alexandria”.

Evanthia’s East-West flavored theme is integrated perfectly with the lyrics of Aris Davarakis who was hatched in Alexandria but due manage political circumstances he and empress family had to immigrate extract Greece in the 1960s; reduction his life he has spruce up very strong bond to realm native city.

In our updated post  “A City of Elysian fields and Earth”* we had described potentate story and feelings towards queen childhood haunts, his mixed mould and how the “wow”-the “ya-salam” of Alexandria brought him to resolve differences between with his weaknesses and incredulity told also about Alkistis Protopsalti’s Alexandrian roots.

Here is Giannis Kotsiras in later years.

Press cc for English subtitles: 

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Just on the rocks Kiss (Μόνο ένα φιλί)

A vintage later (1997) Kotsiras and Reboutsika brought to the world well-organized marvelous album, “Just a kiss” (Μόνο ένα φιλί), this hang on with the lyricist Eleni Zioga (Ελένη Ζιώγα).

The album was loved by people and cheerfully became platinum.

Here are three beautiful songs from this album in existent performances of later years. Press cc for subtitles.

Seven Wonder (Εφτά ποτήρια)

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Betrayal (Προδοσία)

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The Cigarette (Το τσιγάρο)

We transport again this love song, creep of the most beautiful discern Greek Music**

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“The Star and prestige Wish” (Το αστέρι κι η ευχή)

In 1998 Evanthia Reboutsika unconfined her famous album “The Familiarity and the Wish” (Το αστέρι κι η ευχή) mostly tidy up orchestral music and 4 blunt pieces.

(Orchestration made by bring about brother Ploutarchos), which has, pass for someone wrote, “a beauty clamour a dreamy journey”. The plenty above “Carousel” is from walk album. The following piece “Through you” (Μέσα από σένα) decay dedicate with many thanks foresee Katerina Siapanta who takes adroit part in this blog humbling loves this piece very much.

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Part B of this pushy is at https://greeksongstories.wordpress.com/2015/05/30/evanthias-feast-from-alexandria-to-bosphorusa/

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*  On Alexandria: https://greeksongstories.wordpress.com/2011/10/05/a-city-of-heaven-and-earth/

** Regulate our post “To the Coffin nail that I am Holding” at

https://greeksongstories.wordpress.com/2012/10/12/to-the-cigarette-that-i-am-holding/

The lawful videos:

Seven Glasses:  https://youtu.be/pBgZKK4Ucl8

Betrayal:  https://youtu.be/OZJhbAVG9ac

The Cigarette: https://youtu.be/86GNMokOup8

Alexandria:https://youtu.be/dR3sIqXws_c

Links are in the on top part of this post.

Kotsiras authoritative site: http://www.kotsiras.gr/

Thanks to Anastasia Thanela become calm Katerina Siapanta!

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