Stelios Perpiniadis better known as Stellakis (Greek: Στελλάκης), was a Greek folk music

Greek folk music

Greek folk music includes a variety of Greek styles played by ethnic Greeks in Greece, Cyprus, Australia, the United States and elsewhere. Apart from the common music found all-around Greece, there are distinct types of folk music, sometimes related to the history or simply the taste of the...

ian who wrote, sang, and played guitar in the 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...

style. He was the father of another well-known Greek folk musician, Vangelis Perpiniadis.

Perpiniadis was born in Tinos

Tinos

Tinos is a Greek island situated in the Aegean Sea. It is located in the Cyclades archipelago. In antiquity, Tinos was also known as Ophiussa and Hydroessa . The closest islands are Andros, Delos, and Mykonos...

, and in 1923 moved to Piraeas, where he came into contact with rebetiko musicians from Asia Minor

Asia Minor

Asia Minor is a geographical location at the westernmost protrusion of Asia, also called Anatolia, and corresponds to the western two thirds of the Asian part of Turkey...

. He worked together with other well-known rebetiko musicians such as 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...

, and recorded duets with well-known singers such as Rosa Eskenazi, Marika Ninou

Marika Ninou

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

, Ioanna Georgakopoulou, and Dimitris Perdikopoulos. He died in Athens

Athens

Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...

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