Marika Ninou
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Marika Ninou was a Rebetiko songstress.
She was born Evangelia Atamian-Nikolaidou in the Caucasus area (date uncertain, between 1918 - 1923) and came to Greece as a child.
Marika Ninou sang with her husband and child as a family act. Later, she sang with well-known rebetiko singer Stellakis Perpiniadis at different Athens night clubs. In 1949 she was discovered by composer Vasilis Tsitsanis who took her under his wing and wrote most of the songs that were to make her famous. Their partnership would last her entire lifetime except for her tour of the United States in the mid-1950s.
She died on February 23, 1956 of cancer.