Laiko

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Laiko was the pop music of the 1950s and 1960s. It developed from the Rebetiko style of music, more refined, more westernised and more respectable. Though immensely popular in Greece, it was criticized from some quarters for its apoliticism and decadence, and its unpure Turkish roots.

Laika Singers