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Artist
Pavlos Sidiropoulos
12+ albums
greek rockrockGreeksinger-songwriterclassic rock
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Pavlos Sidiropoulos (Greek: Παύλος Σιδηρόπουλος) (Athens, July 27th, 1948 – Athens, 6 December 1990) was a Rock musician, noted for supporting the use of Greek lyrics in rock music, at a time when most Greek rock groups were using English lyrics. Sidiropoulos began his career in 1970 in Thessaloniki, where he was studing maths. Together with Pantelis Delleyannidis he founded the rock group “Damon and Phidias”A song of that era (“Clown”) later came out in the album “Zorba the Freak”. After he finished his studies, he returned to Athens, where he worked to his father's factory. They soon met, at "Kittaro" the Greek musician Dionysis Savvopoulos and his group “Bourboulia”. They joined that group and participated in the album “Damis the tough” (Greek: Ντάμης ο σκληρός). They stayed in this group for two years until 1974. It was through this group that Sidiropoulos first experimented with combining Greek and Rock music. Afterwards, Sidiropoulos collaborated with the Greek composer Yannis Markopoulos: he sang in his compositions “Oropedio”, “Thessalikos Kiklos” and "Electric Theseus" on lyrics by the poet Dimitris Varos. In 1976, together with Spiropoulos brothers, he founded the music group “Spiridoula”. They created the album "Flou". It was during this period that Sidiropoulos made his two film appearances. He had the leading role in the film “O Asymvivastos”, directed by Andreas Thomopoulos. He also sang all of the songs of the soundtrack, written mostly by Thomopoulos, includi
