"Dio Portes Echi i Zoi" (Greek

Greek alphabet

The Greek alphabet is the script that has been used to write the Greek language since at least 730 BC . The alphabet in its classical and modern form consists of 24 letters ordered in sequence from alpha to omega...

: Δύο Πόρτες έχει η Ζωή) is a song made popular by Greek singer Stelios Kazantzidis

Stelios Kazantzidis

Stylianos Kazantzidis was a prominent Greek singer. A leading singer of Greek popular music, or Laïkó, he collaborated with many of Greece's foremost composers.-Biography :...

. The lyrics are by Eftichia Papagianopoulos

Eftichia Papagianopoulos

Eftichia Papagianopoulos , also spelled as Eftihia Papagianopoulou, was a Greek lyricist.She was born in Aidini near Smyrna in Asia Minor in 1893. She left Smyrna in 1919 prior to the Greco-Turkish War and just three years before the Great Fire of Smyrna and Smyrna's 1922 conquest by the Turks...

 (Greek

Greek alphabet

The Greek alphabet is the script that has been used to write the Greek language since at least 730 BC . The alphabet in its classical and modern form consists of 24 letters ordered in sequence from alpha to omega...

: Ευτυχία Παπαγιαννοπούλου) and the music is by Kazantzidis himself. "Dio Portes Echi i Zoi" means "Life Has Two Doors".

The song was released in 1959 on 7" 45rpm vinyl record. The record also contained the song "Madhubala" and sold about 100,000 pieces in its year of release beating the previous record of 45,000 record sales that Hadjidakis song "Garifallo st' afti" had set.

External links

• Stelios Kazantzids performs Dio Portes Echi i Zoi