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George Katsaros
12+ albums
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Giorgos Katsaros-Theologitis was the second child of a wealthy family in Amorgos that when at five lost his father (on an accident) and grew up together with his mother and grandfather. It was because of his grandfather that the young boy received his first impressions on the songs of the Greek islands (“Nisiotika”). From a very early age he begins teaching himself the guitar. During the first years of the 1900’s his mother took him and his sister and moved to Athens, where in order to support her family she worked as a cook in houses of wealthy families. In 1905 and with her fame as a cook having reached the circles of the celebrities of the times, she is hired by the domestic staff of the king Konstantinos as a cook. For approximately ten years Giorgos Katsaros listens to and marvels at the military bands and learns to play and sing the military marches and the songs of the era. In 1910 he begins performing as a guitarist and wandering singer of light and satirical music at various entertainment spaces in Kastela, Faliro and in joints in Athens and Piraeus. His uncle was working for the police directory of Piraeus and the young Katsaros paid him often visits, where he got a good taste of the port and its subculture. He came in contact with a rebetiko musicians from which he was influenced and whose songs later on recorded in the US. On December 1913, together with his uncle and his guitar, he leaves Greece to settle to New York. During his first three years of stay in
top songs
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Abrazame
6972Stis Syras To Aniforo
1633Vre Ti Mangas Pou'Mai Go
1564Woman in Love
1425Vre Ti Mangas Pou Mai Go
1416Stis Syras To Aniforo (On The Hill In Syros)
1107Vre Ti Mangas Pou' Mai Go
1088Nei Gheri Psithirizoun (Young and Old Men Are Whispering)
869Vre Ti Mangas Pou'Mai Go (What a Mangas I Am)
7810Fonias Tha Ghino (I'll Become a Murderer)
71albums
George Katsaros: Greek Blues in America, Vol. 1
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Brass Pins And Match Heads: International 78s
George Katsaros / 36 Chryses Melodies 1974-1990
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V.A. - Rembetika A (Greek Music From The Underground By Charles Howard)
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To What Strange Place : The Music of the Ottoman-American Diaspora, 1916-1929
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Romantic Collection Instrumental
Ta Tragoudia Tis Zois Mou
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Instrumental
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Brass Pins & Pearls: International 78s
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Sax & Sex vol. 4
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Romantic Sax for Lovers
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Sax & Sex vol. 5