ISBN 978-0-578-94414-2
Apostolos Nikolaidis The Authentic Laïká Singer Who Was Never Censored
ΕΝΑΣ ΓΝΗΣΙΟΣ ΛΑΪΚΟΣ ΤΡΑΓΟΥΔΙΣΤΗΣ ΠΟΥ ΔΕΝ ΛΟΓΟΚΡΙΘΗΚΕ ΠΟΤΕ
This bilingual volume (in Greek and English) is a comprehensive dual monograph on the career and artistic contribution of Apostolos Nikolaidis (1938–1999), a singer of Greek laïká music whose career spanned four decades.
He was the first Greek artist to record “prohibited” rebétika songs with their original lyrics in the early 1970s, during the military junta, when the genre was banned in Greece. His recordings caused a sensation, captivating Greek audiences worldwide.
Drawing on more than a decade of research — photographs, letters, posters, archival recordings, and testimonies gathered from musicians, friends and associates across the United States, Canada and Greece — his daughter Maria has assembled a monograph unlike anything published before on Greek popular music.
