Biography
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Born
21 June 1950 (age 73)
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Born In
Arkadia, Peloponnisos, Greece
Vasilis Papakonstantinou was born in a little village of Arkadia in 1950 . His big family moved to Athens in 1957 . He began singin in the age of 20 and after his military service in 1973 he went to Munich , Germany to participate and sing in anti-dictatoric commities where many greeks used to go . In 1974 he met Mikis Theodorakis in Paris . Their cooperation would start in 2 years . He returned to Athens the same year , and he started his professional career . He participated in Manos Loizos' album "Ta tragoudia tou dromou" . The next year he recorded "Ta agrotika" of Thomas Mpakalakos . It was that time when he met Manos Loizos and Thanos Mikroutsikos , two composers who brought a new sound to greek music . Vasilis was ideal to express the two artists . He cooperated for the first time in 1976 with Mikis Theodorakis and 2 years later Mikis Theodorakis , included him in his international tour giving him a chance to sing in Europe , America and Australia . From that time he started showing his influences from foreign rock , in his first two albums which he recorded in early 80's . His Latest album came on 2007 called Metopiki.
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