1917
Michalis Genitsaris, Greek singer-songwriter (died 2005)
Michalis Genitsaris, Greek singer-songwriter (died 2005)
Michalis Genitsaris, Greek singer-songwriter (died 2005)
Michalis Genitsaris
Greek composer and singer
- Born
- 1917
Michalis Genitsaris was a Greek singer and composer of the rebetiko genre. He was born and died in Agia Sofia, Piraeus. He was known as the last pre-war rebetiko singer. He composed such songs as Ego mangas fenomouna("I looked like a tough guy"), Enas leventis esvise etc. He was interviewed for the Australian SBS programme Music of the Outsiders in which he describes his encounter with a policeman when he was seventeen, the age at which he composed Ego mangas fenomouna.