Flery Dandonaki

Flery Dandonaki (real name Papadantonaki Freedom, 1937-1998) was a Greek singer, famous for its cooperation with Manos Hadjidakis and interpretation of the album The Great Erotic. Born in Athens in 1937 (according to others in Crete) and low grappled with the arts and especially the acting, which is probably due to the fact that her father was a director, actor and film producer. By adulthood goes to the U.S., where he studied History and Literature and soon begins an acting career, participating in shows in New York. Her role as singer born of random opportunities, which sings folk songs for her friends. Gradually the dominant role and begins to appear in the music scene with a wide repertoire that includes folk music of Greece, Spain and even Brazil. In 1965 appears the first album titled «Fleury: The isles of Greece», which includes a varied repertoire of folk songs of the Apostle Kaldara, Brazilian bossa nova and three pieces of the then-young-Mikis Theodorakis. With the advent of the junta, Flery advocates and anti-dictatorial movement shows its support for singing at concentrations of Andreas Papandreou. At the same time, he meets Melina Mercouri, which replaces even one of his shows «Ilya darling» Jules Dassin's. In 1970 he met Manos Hadjidakis, who hear the voice recording; be in ecstasies at his home in New York Hadjidakis a series of classic rebetika Tsitsanis, Mark Vamvakari etc. Many years later, the recording takes the form of a disc entitled "Operating in Flery Dandonaki Manos Hadjidakis' and is the past record of dealing with rebetika Hadjidakis songs. In between the two artists together to record "rhythm" (1971), where Flery singing six songs "Circle of CNS», a poem by the composer. Two years before the final fall of the junta, Manos Hadjidakis and "muse" of returning to Greece. In 1972 a pivotal year in her career Flery, the most important event the version of the album "The Great Erotic"; involved in the production and Dimitris Psarianos, set to music that includes ancient and modern Greek poetry on love. At the end of that year Flery the record again, this time the "Captain - Michael" by Hadjidakis, and participates in the album "Twelve songs by George Potamianos", a Greek shipping magnate, with whom she had a great friendship from the time was in the U.S.. A period of artistic creation; unaccented part in some friendly movies, but he met composer Christos Leontis. The cooperation between them are held up and Flery enters a single search and "lost in the paths of her mind" as she declares public. He returns to the limelight in 1984, performing three songs on the first disk of Elias Liougos titled "Night test." Begins her appearances in music venues "Tipoukeitos ',' Brown - theater" and the Tower of Apollo. Accompanied by pianist Yiannis Spyropoulos, Bach interprets songs of Hatzidakis, Greek folk, and jazz songs and soul anthology. Her last appearance record coming in 1986, when he sings the "Song of the Night" disk "concrete Trains" complex "Termites." In 1985, a concert at the Roman Forum, which includes and is Dimitra Galani and last appearance on stage; frightened by the crowd and leaves the stage, but eventually returned and deified for its interpretation. Since then withdrawn from the limelight and considers its relationship with the song closed. It remains secluded with her mother and her daughter Zoe, and many artists in vain to reach in order recurrence. The fate of the double rings; alienated by private demons of gigantic proportions, and now suffers from cancer. He died on July 18, 1998, on a bed of Metaxa Hospital, katarrakomeni and confused; grave lies in the cemetery of Peania, next to it by Manos Hadjidakis.