Rebetes
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A rebetis is a musician involved in the scene of the Greek musical genre of rebetiko
Rebetiko
Rebetiko, plural rebetika, , occasionally transliterated as Rembetiko, is a term used today to designate originally disparate kinds of urban Greek folk music which have come to be grouped together since the so-called rebetika revival, which started in the 1960s and developed further from the early...

, which flourished between 1920 and 1955.

Prominent rebetes include:
  • Rita Abatzi
    Rita Abatzi
    Rita Abatzi was a Greek rebetiko musician who began her career in the first part of the 1930s.She was born in Smyrna, Asia Minor, now İzmir, Turkey. A versatile singer of rebetiko, Smyrneika and other music, she was a popular performer on gramophone records in the 1930s...

  • Babis Tsertos
    Babis Tsertos
    Haralambos Tsertos was born in Tropea of Arcadia, Greece on October 27, 1956. He is brother of the singer Nadia Karagianni. His father was a musician too, and he was playing the Mandolin...

  • Yiorgos Batis
    Yiorgos Batis
    Yiorgos Batis was one of the first rebetes influential to rebetiko music. His real name was Yiorgos Tsoros although he was known as Yiorgos Ampatis...

  • Sotiria Bellou
    Sotiria Bellou
    Sotiria Bellou was a famous Greek singer and performer of the Greek rebetiko style of music. She was one of the most famous rebetisas of all, mentioned in many music guides, and a contributor to the 1984 British Documentary entitled Music of the Outsiders...

  • Anestis Delias
  • Roza Eskenazi
    Roza Eskenazi
    Roza Eskenazi was a famous Jewish-Greek singer of rebetiko and Greek folk music born in Constantinople , whose recording and stage career extended from the late 1920s into the 1970s....

  • Mihalis Genitsaris
  • Dimitris Gogos (Bayianderas)
  • Giannis Eitziridis (Yovan Tsaous)
    Iovan Tsaous
    Iovan Tsaous , , was a Greek musician and composer of rebetiko songs from Pontus. His real name was Yiannis Eitziridis or Etseiridis .-Biography:...

  • Apostolos Hatzichristos
  • Manolis Hiotis
  • Manolis Chrysafakis
  • Anna Chrysafi
  • Apostolos Nikolaidis
    Apostolos Nikolaidis (singer)
    Apostolos Nikolaidis was a Greek singer whose career spanned four decades. He was born in Drama, Greece and grew up in Thessaloniki...

  • Marika Ninou
    Marika Ninou
    Marika Ninou , was an Armenian-Greek rebetiko singer, born Evangelia Atamian .-Biography:...

  • Giannis Papaioannou
    Giannis Papaioannou
    Giannis Papaioannou was a famous Greek musician and composer born in Kios, Turkey . In English his name is sometimes romanized as Yannis, Ioannis or Yiannis. Most active in the 1940s, he wrote many songs, some of which are today considered classics of the rebetiko folk music style...

  • Vangelis Papazoglou
  • Stratos Pagioumtzis
  • Stelios Perpiniadis
    Stelios Perpiniadis
    Stelios Perpiniadis , better known as Stellakis , was a Greek folk musician who wrote, sang, and played guitar in the rebetiko style. He was the father of another well-known Greek folk musician, Vangelis Perpiniadis....

     (Stellakis)
  • Kostas Roukounas
    Kostas Roukounas
    Konstantinos Roukounas was a Greek singer. His repertoire included both "traditional" and "popular" songs . Most notable is his contribution to the subgenre of rebetiko...

  • Kostas Skarvelis
    Kostas Skarvelis
    Kostas Skarvelis was a Greek composer of popular music, οf the genre of rembetiko in particular. He also wrote the lyrics for his songs and was an excellent guitar player, having participated in many recordings.-Life:...

  • Prodromos Tsaousakis
  • Vassilis Tsitsanis
    Vassilis Tsitsanis
    Vassilis Tsitsanis was a Greek songwriter and bouzouki player. He became one of the leading Greek composers of his time and is widely regarded as one of the founders of modern Rebetika. Tsitsanis wrote more than 500 songs and is still remembered as an extraordinary bouzouki...

  • Markos Vamvakaris
    Markos Vamvakaris
    Markos Vamvakaris , was a rebetiko musician. He is universally referred to by rebetiko writers and fans simply by his first name, Markos...

     (Markos)
  • Kostas Kaplanis
  • Andonis Kalyvopoulos
  • A. Kostis
  • Antonis Dalgas
  • Giorgos Theologitis (Katsaros)
  • Stelios Keromitis
  • Giorgos Mouflouzelis
  • Giorgos Kavouaras
  • Odysseas Moshonas


Note: Sometimes (not without controversy) this definition is extended to include modern day performers of this kind of music, such as Babis Goles and Agathonas Iakovidis.

Sources

  • Damianakos Stathis
    Damianakos Stathis
    Stathis Damianakos is considered one of the most prominent researchers in the fields of agriculture, ethnological and cultural sociology in Greece. Among his most known works are the "Sociology of Rebetiko" and "Paradosi antarsias kai laikos politismos" . Damianakos was a Marxist sociologist and...

    , Κοινωνιολογία του Ρεμπέτικου 2nd Edition. Athens, Plethron, 2001.
  • Gauntlett Stathis, Rebetika, Carmina Graeciae Recentoris. Athens, D. Harvey and Co., 1985.
  • Hadjidakis Manos
    Manos Hadjidakis
    Manos Hatzidakis was a Greek composer and theorist of the Greek music. He was also one of the main prime movers of the "Éntekhno" song ....

    , Ερμηνεία και θέση του ρεμπέτικου τραγουδιού. 1949.
  • Holst-Warhaft Gail, Road to Rembetika: Music of a Greek sub-culture, songs of love, sorrow and hashish, Athens, Denise Harvey, 1989
  • Kotarides Nikos, Ρεμπέτες και ρεμπέτικο τραγούδι. Athens, Plethron, 1996.
  • Kounades Panagiotis, Εις ανάμνησιν στιγμών ελκυστικών. Athens, Katarti, 2000.
  • Petropoulos Elias
    Elias Petropoulos
    Elias Petropoulos , who was born in Greece but spent much of his life in France, holds a unique place in the intellectual life of Europe...

    , Ρεμπέτικα τραγούδια. Athens, 1968.
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