Nikos Papazoglou, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Nikos Papazoglou

Greek singer-songwriter, musician, and producer

Date of Birth: 20-Mar-1948

Place of Birth: Thessaloniki, Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace, Greece

Date of Death: 17-Apr-2011

Profession: composer, singer, songwriter

Nationality: Greece

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Nikos Papazoglou

  • Nikolaos (Nikos) Papazoglou (in Greek: ????? ?ap???????; 20 March 1948 – 17 April 2011) was a Thessaloniki-born Greek singer-songwriter, musician, and producer. Papazoglou began performing in a number of Greek local groups in the 1960s.
  • In 1972, he moved to Aachen in Germany with the group Zilotis (Greek: ????t??) in an attempt to break into the international music scene.
  • The group recorded six songs in Milan, Italy.
  • Shortly afterwards, he returned to Greece.
  • In 1976, Greek songwriter Dionysis Savvopoulos invited him to participate in Acharnees, a cycle of songs and stage acts based on the ancient comedy by Aristophanes.
  • There Papazoglou met Manolis Rasoulis and the two, along with Dionysis Savvopoulos and Nikos Xydakis, produced in 1978 the influential Ekdikisi Tis Gyftias (Greek: ??d???s? t?? ??ft???, meaning The Revenge of Gypsies in Greek).
  • The work received critical acclaim.
  • Papazoglou and Rasoulis cooperated the following year in another successful work, Ta Dithen (?a d??e? meaning so-called in Greek). Since 1984 the artist organized his tours by himself.
  • He and his band known as Loxi falaga (Greek: ???? f??a??a meaning Oblique order), played in small venues in villages and small islands, gaining huge popularity with the general public.
  • His works generated an ever-expanding audience in northern Europe and America and was very well known as a cult persona with his signature red bandana, the playing of the baglamas and considered a veritable world music figure.Very well known Nikos Papazoglou songs include: "?a?e?? ed? de? t?a???d?", "?? ????da", "?????st??", "?? µ???e? de? ?p?????? p?a" and "?d??????" as well as many others that have become big Greek and international hits.
  • Many of his songs have been interpreted by other Greek artists and been sung in various languages.
  • Papazoglou was a producer and sound technician to many of the underground rock scene of Greece in the 1980s through his Agrotikon Studio.He lived in Thessaloniki with his wife and his two children.
  • He died at 17 April 2011 after a long struggle with cancer.

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