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Famous Footwear began in 1960 with the establishment of a single shoe store, Neil's Factory Shoe Outlet (launched as "Neil's Shoes"), in Madison, Wisconsin. The store was launched by 29-year-old Neil Moldenhauer and was financed by a $10,000 loan. [4] In 1963, Neil's Factory Shoe Outlet hired a college student named Brian Cook as a stock boy, a ...
Lyrics. Unknown(folklore, 1910s) Music. Unknown(traditional from Macedonia) "Famous Macedonia" (Greek: Μακεδονία ξακουστή, romanized: Makedonia Xakousti, pronounced[maceðoˈni.aksakusˈti]) is a Greek military march folk song often regarded as the regional anthemof Greek Macedonia,[1]and used by the Hellenic Armysince the ...
Pidikto songs are more energetic and involve leaping, whilst the Syrto songs and accompanying dances are slower and more free-flowing. [1] Some songs also are a combination of Pidikto and Syrto tempos. Universal dances that accompany Greek folk music include Kalamatianos (a universal Greek dance from Kalamata), Tsamiko, Ballos and Sousta. [2]
Rebetiko (Greek: ρεμπέτικο, pronounced [re(m)ˈbetiko]), plural rebetika (ρεμπέτικα [re(m)ˈbetika]), occasionally transliterated as rembetiko or rebetico, is a term used today to designate originally disparate kinds of urban Greek music which in the 1930s went through a process of musical syncretism and developed into a more distinctive musical genre.
Kazantzidis was born in Nea Ionia, in Athens, Greece.He was the first of two brothers born to Haralambos Kazantzidis (of Pontian roots from Ordu) (Greek Κοτύωρα Kotyora) and Gesthimani Kazantzidi, who was a Greek who came from the town of Alanya (known as Alaiya) (Greek Κορακήσιον Korakesion) in what is now southern Turkey and migrated to Greece as a result of the Greco ...
Nikos Xylouris was born in Anogeia, Mylopotamos Province, Rethymno Prefecture, a village perched on the slopes of Mount Ida (a.k.a. Psiloritis, literally: "high mountain"), the highest mountain on the island of Crete, itself the largest of all the Greek Islands, situated at the southernmost end of the Aegean Sea.
Songs originating from Greece with lyrics in English. Pages in category "English-language Greek songs" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total.
His song cycles are based on poems by Greek authors, as well as by García Lorca and Neruda: Epitaphios, Archipelagos, Politia A-D, Epiphania, The Hostage, Mykres Kyklades, Mauthausen, Romiossini, Sun and Time, Songs for Andreas, Mythology, Night of Death, Ta Lyrika, The Quarters of the World, Dionysos, Phaedra, Mia Thalassa, Os Archaios Anemos ...