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 ==Biography==
-Markos Vamvakaris was born on [[May 10]], [[1905]] in [[Ano Syros|Ano Chora]] in [[Syros]] and was raised by a [[Catholics in Greece|Catholic]] family.
+Markos Vamvakaris was born on [[May 10]], [[1905]] in [[Ano Syros|Ano Chora]] in [[Syros]] and was raised by a [[Catholic Church in Greece|Catholic]] family.
 At the age of 12, Vamvakaris left from Syros to [[Piraeus]].  He worked as a stevedore, employee at a pit-coal mine, polisher, paperman, and two others.  He learned [[bouzouki]] and began to write music.

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 ==Biography==
-Markos Vamvakaris was born on [[May 10]], [[1905]] in [[Ano Syros|Ano Chora]] in [[Syros]] and was raised by a Catholic family.
+Markos Vamvakaris was born on [[May 10]], [[1905]] in [[Ano Syros|Ano Chora]] in [[Syros]] and was raised by a [[Catholics in Greece|Catholic]] family.
 At the age of 12, Vamvakaris left from Syros to [[Piraeus]].  He worked as a stevedore, employee at a pit-coal mine, polisher, paperman, and two others.  He learned [[bouzouki]] and began to write music.

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-[[Image:Vamvakaris-Markos.jpg|thumb|200px|Markos Vamvakaris]]'''Markos Vamvakaris''',([[May 10]], [[1905]] in Ano Chora in [[Syros]] - [[February 8]], [[1972]]) (Greek: Μάρκος Βαμβακάρης), one of the [[Greece]]’s most popular and respected musicians of [[rebetika]], a genre that arose from the byzantine-rooted music of the refugees of [[Asia Minor]] and represented the underground in a manner similar to that of blues in the USA. He was one of the [[Tetras, the Legends of Piraeus]] group of musicians, and is generally accredited as being the grandfather of rebetiko, and pioneer of the bouzouki in popular music.
+[[Image:Vamvakaris-Markos.jpg|thumb|200px|Markos Vamvakaris]]'''Markos Vamvakaris''',([[May 10]], [[1905]] in [[Ano Syros|Ano Chora]] in [[Syros]] - [[February 8]], [[1972]]) (Greek: Μάρκος Βαμβακάρης), one of the [[Greece]]’s most popular and respected musicians of [[rebetika]], a genre that arose from the byzantine-rooted music of the refugees of [[Asia Minor]] and represented the underground in a manner similar to that of blues in the USA. He was one of the [[Tetras, the Legends of Piraeus]] group of musicians, and is generally accredited as being the grandfather of rebetiko, and pioneer of the bouzouki in popular music.
 ==Biography==
-Markos Vamvakaris was born on [[May 10]], [[1905]] in Ano Chora in [[Syros]] and was raised by a Catholic family.
+Markos Vamvakaris was born on [[May 10]], [[1905]] in [[Ano Syros|Ano Chora]] in [[Syros]] and was raised by a Catholic family.
 At the age of 12, Vamvakaris left from Syros to [[Piraeus]].  He worked as a stevedore, employee at a pit-coal mine, polisher, paperman, and two others.  He learned [[bouzouki]] and began to write music.

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-[[Image:Vamvakaris-Markos.jpg|thumb|200px|Markos Vamvakaris]]'''Markos Vamvakaris''',([[May 10]], [[1905]] in Ano Chora in [[Syros]] - [[February 8]], [[1972]]) (Greek: Μάρκος Βαμβακάρης), one of the [[Greece]]’s most popular and respected musicians of [[rebetika]], a genre that came to Greece with the refugees of [[Asia Minor]] and represented the underground in a manner similar to that of jazz in the USA. He was one of the [[Tetras, the Legendary of Piraeus]] group of musicians.
+[[Image:Vamvakaris-Markos.jpg|thumb|200px|Markos Vamvakaris]]'''Markos Vamvakaris''',([[May 10]], [[1905]] in Ano Chora in [[Syros]] - [[February 8]], [[1972]]) (Greek: Μάρκος Βαμβακάρης), one of the [[Greece]]’s most popular and respected musicians of [[rebetika]], a genre that arose from the byzantine-rooted music of the refugees of [[Asia Minor]] and represented the underground in a manner similar to that of blues in the USA. He was one of the [[Tetras, the Legends of Piraeus]] group of musicians, and is generally accredited as being the grandfather of rebetiko, and pioneer of the bouzouki in popular music.
 ==Biography==
-Markos Vamvakaris was born on [[May 10]], [[1905]] in Ano Chora in [[Syros]] from a Catholic family.
+Markos Vamvakaris was born on [[May 10]], [[1905]] in Ano Chora in [[Syros]] and was raised by a Catholic family.
-At the age of 12, Vamvakaris left from Syros to [[Piraeus]].  He occupied with professions as a stevedore, employee at a pit-coal mine, polisher, paperman, and two others.  He learned [[bouzouki]] and begin to write music, he printed at a speed and knew one of the organ and with his capabilities.
+At the age of 12, Vamvakaris left from Syros to [[Piraeus]].  He worked as a stevedore, employee at a pit-coal mine, polisher, paperman, and two others.  He learned [[bouzouki]] and began to write music.
-In [[1934]], Vamvakaris sold his first rebetiko disc in history, to ''Na 'Rchosouna Re Magka Mou'' (''Να 'ρχόσουνα ρε μάγκα '').  The period shortly before the [[World War II|Second World War]] his presentations were straightened.  Between others in that period, he wrote "Frangosyriani" (''Φραγγοσυριανή'')
+In [[1934]], Vamvakaris' first record was produced, ''Na 'Rchosouna Re Magka Mou'' (''Να 'ρχόσουνα ρε μάγκα ''). In the period shortly before [[World War II|Second World War]], he wrote "Frangosyriani" (''Φραγγοσυριανή''), which was so popular that it consolidated his fame and made him a respected musician.
-After the liberation, difficult times arrived, since it was one of his most ''out-of-date''s.  This lasted until the end of the [[1950s]], when later from initiatives from [[Vassilis Tsitsanis|Tsitsanis]], old and new songs from Vamvakaris were sold, sang from the famous artists including [[Grigoris Bithikotsis]], [[Stratos Dionysiou]], etc.  That's how he won again and he knew as his great physiognomy in rebetiko.   Vamvakaris died on [[February 8]], [[1972]] at the age of 67.
+During the [[1950s]], initiatives from [[Vassilis Tsitsanis|Tsitsanis]], saw old and new songs by Vamvakaris being produced and reproduced, often sung by famous artists including [[Grigoris Bithikotsis]], [[Stratos Dionysiou]], etc. During this time, Vamvakaris' popularity, and the general popularity and acceptability of rebetiko had greatly increased, with a new middle-class audience, which previously shunned the outcast genre. Vamvakaris died on [[February 8]], [[1972]] at the age of 67.
-Greece’s most innovative post-war songwriters — including [[Manos Hadjidakis]], [[Mikis Theodorakis]], [[Manos Loizos]], [[Stavros Xarchakos]] and [[Christos Leontis]] — have all credited Markos as being a big influence on their work. Yet, Markos remained a humble giant until the very end.
+Greece’s most innovative post-war songwriters — including [[Manos Hadjidakis]], [[Mikis Theodorakis]], [[Manos Loizos]], [[Stavros Xarchakos]] and [[Christos Leontis]] — have all credited Markos as having influenced their work greatly. Yet, Markos remained a humble giant until the very end.
-==Real also==
+==Read also==
 *[[Stelios Vamvakaris]] - son of [[Markos Vamvakaris]]

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 In [[1934]], Vamvakaris sold his first rebetiko disc in history, to ''Na 'Rchosouna Re Magka Mou'' (''Να 'ρχόσουνα ρε μάγκα '').  The period shortly before the [[World War II|Second World War]] his presentations were straightened.  Between others in that period, he wrote "Frangosyriani" (''Φραγγοσυριανή'')
-After the liberation, difficult times arrived, since it was one of his most ''out-of-date''s.  This lasted until the end of the [[1950s]], when later from initiatives from [[Vassilis Tsitsanis|Tsitsanis]], old and new songs from Vamvakaris were sold, sang from the famous artists including [[Grigoris Bithikostis]], [[Stratos Dionysou]], etc.  That's how he won again and he knew as his great physiognomy in rebetiko.   Vamvakaris died on [[February 8]], [[1972]] at the age of 67.
+After the liberation, difficult times arrived, since it was one of his most ''out-of-date''s.  This lasted until the end of the [[1950s]], when later from initiatives from [[Vassilis Tsitsanis|Tsitsanis]], old and new songs from Vamvakaris were sold, sang from the famous artists including [[Grigoris Bithikotsis]], [[Stratos Dionysou]], etc.  That's how he won again and he knew as his great physiognomy in rebetiko.   Vamvakaris died on [[February 8]], [[1972]] at the age of 67.
 Greece’s most innovative post-war songwriters — including [[Manos Hadjidakis]], [[Mikis Theodorakis]], [[Manos Loizos]], [[Stavros Xarchakos]] and [[Christos Leontis]] — have all credited Markos as being a big influence on their work. Yet, Markos remained a humble giant until the very end.

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 *[http://www.spectacularopticals.com/MVA/MVAmain.html/ The Markos Vamvakaris Archive]
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 [[Category:Rebetiko|Vamvakaris, Markos]]