Haris Alexiou

Haris Alexiou is a Greek singer and songwriter whose career spans popular music, rebetiko, and laïko, with performances in Greek and other languages.

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Manos Loizos: A Greek composer whose songs became central to modern Greek popular music. Alexiou recorded songs by Loizos, including works that helped establish her early repertoire.
Tango of the Nefeli: A 1996 album by Haris Alexiou featuring songs composed by Loreena McKennitt. The album illustrates Alexiou’s engagement with material beyond the Greek popular-song tradition.
Rebetiko: A Greek urban popular-music tradition that developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Alexiou’s interpretations connect her repertoire to rebetiko’s songs and vocal style.
Singer-songwriter: A musician who writes and performs songs, often presenting personal or self-authored material. Alexiou is known chiefly as an interpreter, though she has also written songs.
Mikis Theodorakis: A Greek composer known for symphonic works, film scores, and politically resonant popular songs. Her recordings of Theodorakis’s songs place her voice in a major strand of Greek art and popular music.
To Paidi Apo Tin Thiva: A 1980 album by Haris Alexiou, featuring songs by several Greek composers. This early release captures her emergence as a major interpreter of contemporary Greek song.
Laïko: A Greek popular-music genre rooted in urban song traditions and associated with bouzouki-led performance. Laïko forms a central part of the musical world in which Alexiou built her career.
Traditional Greek music: Music passed through Greek oral and communal traditions, including regional songs and dance forms. Her popular recordings draw on tradition without being limited to traditional repertory.
Dimitris Papadimitriou: A Greek composer and conductor whose work spans songs, orchestral music, and theatre. Their collaborations brought Alexiou into dialogue with a later generation of Greek composers.
I Agapi Ine Zali: A 1986 album by Haris Alexiou featuring songs by Greek composers and lyricists. Its varied songwriting shows the breadth of the repertoire she carried through the 1980s.