Sodade caesarea evora arvanitaki biography
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I was barely 15, restless and so in love with music. Every waking hour was about music: listening to it, playing it, singing it, breathing it. A group of friends from school had decided to go out on the town, to one of those Athens nightclubs. Rebetika and laika were all the rage and we had heard about this great “kompania” (multi-member group) playing somewhere in the city centre. Those first outings are so ingrained in my memory; every sound and sight sent tingling sensations to the very core of my teenage existence. I was ready to take the world by storm.
We took our seats at a giant table reserved by one of our schoolmates whose brother was in the band. Some 20 very young people, we tried to act cool and adult, ordering whiskey and wine and lighting each other’s cigarettes feigning maturity. The lights went out, the instruments – a bouzouki, toubeleki (percussion), guitar – were doing their last awkward fine-tuning… and there she was… her voice was so outlandish, so ethereal, so out there that I froze in my seat and have remained enthralled ever since. I had heard rumours about this singer with the Opisthodromiki Kompania, their latest find who’d been tagged the “new Marika Ninou”. How could that be, I thought. Ninou was one of the greatest (and most
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1999- 2000
Eleftheria’s songs are traveling all over the world! The CD “Eleftheria Arvanitaki – The Very Best of 1989-1998” is released by the historic jazz label Verve which has a number of very important recordings of very famous jazz and ethnic artists in her catalogue, such as Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Mercedes Sosa, Louis Armstrong and Night Ark. She is the first Greek singer being introduced by Verve to the international audience.
Four of Eleftheria’s albums are released in Europe in special editions These are: “Meno Ektos” (i.e. “I remain outside”), “I Nichta Katevenei” (i.e. “The Night is Descending”), “Zontana stous Vrachous” (i.e. “Live at Vrachon”) and “Ta Kormia ke ta Maheria” (i.e. “the Bodies and the Knives”).
In spring, she gives a series of appearances at the “Iera Odos” Club in Athens and the “FIX” club in Salonica together with Yannis Kotsiras. Sotirs Lemonidis does the arrangements The stage set is by Manolis Pantelidakis. In spring, she gives a series of appearances at the “Iera Odos” Club in Athens and the “FIX” club in Salonica together with Yannis Kotsiras. Sotirs Lemonidis does the arrangements. The stage set is by Manolis Pantelidakis. She also makes two guest appearances at Cesaria Evora’s concerts in Athens, where their duet in “Sodade”