Katman
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Nikos Katelis better known by his stage name Katman, is known in Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

 for appearing in various trash TV shows, including the show hosted by Annita Pania
Annita Pania
Annita Pania is a Greek television hostess.Before presenting her first dating show, "To Hrisso Koufeto" , she was a teacher of French language and a songwriter....

 called Je T'Aime, where he was a performer of satirical songs.

See below

Katman was first discovered by Annita Pania
Annita Pania
Annita Pania is a Greek television hostess.Before presenting her first dating show, "To Hrisso Koufeto" , she was a teacher of French language and a songwriter....

 on her dating and variety television show To Hryso Koufeto in 1996 where he appeared with the intent of finding a spouse. She subsequently appeared in several episodes of the show.

Since then Katman continually appeared in her weekly show to perform various songs, with the most famous song being his hit O erastis sou (Your lover). Katman also performs crude and improvisational theatrical shows on the show's stage in which he impersonates various fictional and historical figures, from Hamlet
Hamlet
The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601...

 to Napoleon.

In a duet with another trash television singer, Giorgos Tambakis, Katman became known throughout Greece by performing shows in various cities across the country.

Political life

Katman became a deputy of the Greek Ecologists
Greek Ecologists
The Greek Ecologists is a Greek "fringe" and "bizarre ecological party".The party's president is Dimosthenis Vergis, a former auto-worker, trade unionist, journalist, and peace activist...

 party for the Aetolia-Acarnania
Aetolia-Acarnania
Aetolia-Acarnania is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of West Greece. It is located in the western part of Greece; the regional unit is a combination of the geographic regions Aetolia and Acarnania. Its capital is Missolonghi for historical reasons, with its biggest...

 prefecture in the 2009 Euro elections after a proposal was made by the party's president Dimosthenis Vergis. His speech was aired live during Annita Pania's show ta Paratragouda from Kolonaki Square
Filiki Eteria
thumb|right|200px|The flag of the Filiki Eteria.Filiki Eteria or Society of Friends was a secret 19th century organization, whose purpose was to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece and to establish an independent Greek state. Society members were mainly young Phanariot Greeks from Russia and local...

 in Athens. He obviously lost the elections. During a TV commentary discussion, Michalis Tremopoulos
Michalis Tremopoulos
Michalis Tremopoulos is a Greek journalist, laywer, environmentalist and politician. Member of European Parliament since 2009.He graduated in law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1991, and in social ecology at the Goddard College in Vermont in 1993. He worked as a TV, radio and...

 of the Ecologist Greens
Ecologist Greens
The Ecologist Greens are a Greek Green ecologist political party. It has existed since 2002, yet the ecologist movement in Greece dates many years and was characterised by a reluctance to actively become involved in the political scene...

party mentioned in criticism to Vergis that the Greek people would never vote for a party composed of mentally retarded individuals.

Songs

Katman sings mindless and incoherent songs intended to be humorous like "O erastis sou" (Your lover) and "Prepi na kopsis ta narkotika" (Stop using drugs), and as a result, people laugh at him and he is often reduced to ridicule.

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