Zampetas

Zampetas

Genres: Greek

About Zampetas

Giorgos Zampetas (Greek: Γιώργος Ζαμπέτας, sometimes romanized as George Zambetas) was a well-known bouzouki musician. He was born in 25 January 1925 in Athens but his origins are from Kithnos. He died in 10 March 1992. Giorgos Zampetas, Greek music composer, singer and one of the greatest bouzouki artists was born in Metaksourgio of Athens, in 25 January 1925. His parents were Mihalis Zampetas, a barber and Marika Moraiti, niece of a well-known baritone of those years. From a very young age, Giorgos Zampetas showed a great interest for music: as he was helping his father in his barber shop, he secretly played his first melodies on a bouzouki. Anything that was producing sound seemed exciting to him and helped him in his compositions, as he said in his biography not long before he died. In 1932 at the age of 7 he won his first prize, as a student of the first grade, playing his first song in a school competition.

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