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Vassilis Tsitsanis was born on 18 January, 1915 in Trikala, Thessaly, Kingdom of Greece, is an A greek male singer songwriter. Discover Vassilis Tsitsanis's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?

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Occupation Composer, songwriter, musician, singer
Age 69 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 18 January 1915
Birthday 18 January
Birthplace Trikala, Thessaly, Kingdom of Greece
Date of death 1984
Died Place London, United Kingdom
Nationality Greece

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1915

Vassilis Tsitsanis (Βασίλης Τσιτσάνης 18 January 1915 – 18 January 1984) was a Greek songwriter and bouzouki player.

He became one of the leading Greek composers of his time and is widely regarded as one of the founders of modern Rebetiko and Laiko music.

Tsitsanis wrote more than 500 songs and is still remembered as an extraordinary composer and bouzouki player.

Tsitsanis was born in Trikala, in Thessaly, Greece.

His family came from the region of Epirus.

He has been described as having been an Aromanian, and his surname Tsitsanis could indicate some connection with the Aromanians of Metsovo.

He was the only figure performing rebetiko at his time coming from the Greek mainland and not from the islands.

This may be the reason why he was sometimes known as "the Vlach" by his fellow musicians, although this could be due to the actually Aromanian ethnic origin of Tsitsanis (as Aromanians are known as Vlachs in Greece).

It is also rumored that Stratos Pagioumtzis gave him this nickname.

Tsitsanis was also nicknamed "Tsilias".

From a young age, Tsitsanis was interested in music and learned to play violin, mandola and mandolin which were mainstays of so many of his songs.

1936

In 1936, he left for Athens to study law, and by 1937 had also learned bouzouki and made his first musical recording.

‘Η δισκογραφική καριέρα του Βασίλη Τσιτσάνη (1936–1983).

Ανάλυση της μουσικής του μέσω των ηχογραφήσεων εμπορίου.

1938

In 1938, he moved to Thessaloniki, where he completed his military service, and stayed there for about ten years, during the German occupation of Greece.

There he became famous, opened also an ouzeri, got married and wrote many of his best songs that were later recorded after the end of the War.

1941

By the shut-down of the record companies by the German occupation Forces in 1941, he had already recorded about 100 of his own songs and played on many recordings of other composers.

1946

In 1946, Tsitsanis returned to Athens and began recording many of his own compositions that made famous many of the singers that worked with him, such as Sotiria Bellou (Σωτηρία Μπέλου), Marika Ninou (Μαρίκα Νίνου), Ioanna Georgakopoulou and Prodromos Tsaousakis.

Tsitsanis developed the "westernization" of the rebetiko and made it more known to large sections of the population, setting also the bases for the future laiko.

Vassilis Tsitsanis was a close friend with Andreas Papandreou, Prime Minister of the country.

Tsitsanis died at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London following a lung operation, on his sixty-ninth birthday.

He was mourned across Greece, where his music is still enjoyed to this day and he is regarded as a legend of rebetiko music.

2011

Τέσσερα καίρια προβλήματα της έρευνας.’ Διαδικτυακό περιοδικό Η Κλίκα (2011).]

2012

[https://web.archive.org/web/20120730034754/http://www.klika.gr/cms/index.php/ar8rografia/ar8ra/285-diskografiki-kariera-tsitsani.html Ordoulidis, Nikos.