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Artist
Kostas Tournas
12+ albums
GreekrockProgressive rockAll1970s
about
Tournas was born in 1949, in Tripoli, Greece. As a child he enjoyed singing Greek melodies of the era. Due to financial difficulties, his family eventually moved to Kypseli, Athens. Tournas managed to finish high school and in his spare time he used to study playing the guitar which he received as present from his mother. In Athens, Tournas worked at various music clubs in playing Italian and French songs which he did not enjoy very much because he found them melodramatic. He was a Beatles fan to the point of having watched Α Hard Day’s Night seven times in a single day. He also enjoyed listening to the Rolling Stones and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. After returning from the army, Tournas founded Poll, one of the first rock groups of Greece, along with his childhood friend Robert Williams and Stavros Logarides. The motto of their group was Poll is love and their logo was the stylised outline of a dove. In a concert with Poll, in their first ever photographic event, at the Pedion tou Areos Tournas played guitar, sitar, flute and the piano. Poll started appearing at the popular Athens music club Kyttaro presenting folk rock songs influenced from the hippie culture which soon became very popular among the youth. Their first album Anthrope... (Humankind...) included the song Anthrope agapa (Mankind Love Each Other) which became a huge success and came in a fashionable gunny sack. Anthrope agapa is considered the first protest anti-war song in the history of Greek rock. Other
