Rita Sakellariou

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Rita Sakellariou (Greek: Ρίτα Σακελλαρίου; 22 October 1934 – 6 August 1999) was a Greek singer in the laïko tradition.

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Biography Sakellariou was born on 22 October 1934 in Chamezi, a village near Sitia on the Greek island of Crete. Her father was a shoemaker from the island of Kalymnos; her mother's family were refugees from Smyrna. Sakellariou, the eldest of three children, was given the name Margarita after her paternal grandmother. The family moved to Piraeus when Sakellariou was a small child. Her father lost his life in the 1946-49 civil war and the family were left destitute. Sakellariou left school aged twelve and helped the family's finances by selling bread and lemons from a barrow in the streets of Piraeus. Marriage at the age of fourteen provided her with an escape but the marriage did not last and she worked in factories to support her son and daughter. Musically untrained, but with a "inimitable voice endowed with emotion", she started singing in tavernes in Piraeus where Rebetiko music was performed. An introduction to the composer and bouzuki player Vassilis Tsitsanis led to an eight-year collaboration and established her as a singer in the Laïko tradition of urban folk music. She also appeared in several Greek films in the 1960s. She recorded her first solo album, Kathe Iliovasilema (Every…Citește mai mult

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