Loukas Daralas
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Loukas Daralas (1927 1977) was born in Athens
and is perhaps best known as the father of contemporary singer George Dalaras
. (Note the difference in spelling.) He was a performer of Rebetiko
music in Greece
during the 1950s and early 1960s and is famous for the song "To Vouno" ("The Mountain"), a well-known rebetiko song. He released the album Enas Rebetis.
According to the surviving relatives of famous rebetissa Marika Ninou
, in an interview with Panos Geramanis on radio in late 2004, Marika Ninou was the one who discovered, hence the first singer to record "To Vouno", one of the last songs recorded by Ninou, prior to her untimely death. The Keti Grei version was issued a short while later and became very popular.
Loukas Daralas' recordings were few. There were only two official releases on the now defunct Sonora label. The first being Enas Rebetis, which included his own rendition of "To Vouno". The LP was a compilation of his own songs, and 11 other pieces. A follow up LP was released a year later in 1975. However it did not achieve the success of the first LP.
Both LPs are now available on the PolyGram
label on one CD. The rarity of the original releases has resulted in copies of the two LPs being much sought after.
Unfortunately, little is known about Loukas Daralas. He was born in Athens in 1927 and died in 1977. In an interview George Dalaras
once described his father as a free man who travelled a lot and seldom spent time at home.
Athens
Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...
and is perhaps best known as the father of contemporary singer George Dalaras
George Dalaras
George Dalaras , also possibly spelled as Yorgos or Giorgos Dalaras, is a Greek singer. He is of international fame and has recently been selected as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. He was born in Nea Kokinia, Piraeus. His father was Loukas Daralas, a singer of rebetiko.-Early...
. (Note the difference in spelling.) He was a performer of Rebetiko
Rebetiko
Rebetiko, plural rebetika, , occasionally transliterated as Rembetiko, is a term used today to designate originally disparate kinds of urban Greek folk music which have come to be grouped together since the so-called rebetika revival, which started in the 1960s and developed further from the early...
music in Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
during the 1950s and early 1960s and is famous for the song "To Vouno" ("The Mountain"), a well-known rebetiko song. He released the album Enas Rebetis.
According to the surviving relatives of famous rebetissa Marika Ninou
Marika Ninou
Marika Ninou , was an Armenian-Greek rebetiko singer, born Evangelia Atamian .-Biography:...
, in an interview with Panos Geramanis on radio in late 2004, Marika Ninou was the one who discovered, hence the first singer to record "To Vouno", one of the last songs recorded by Ninou, prior to her untimely death. The Keti Grei version was issued a short while later and became very popular.
Loukas Daralas' recordings were few. There were only two official releases on the now defunct Sonora label. The first being Enas Rebetis, which included his own rendition of "To Vouno". The LP was a compilation of his own songs, and 11 other pieces. A follow up LP was released a year later in 1975. However it did not achieve the success of the first LP.
Both LPs are now available on the PolyGram
PolyGram
PolyGram was the name of the major label recording company started by Philips from as a holding company for its music interests in 1945. In 1999 it was sold to Seagram and merged into Universal Music Group.-Hollandsche Decca Distributie , 1929-1950:...
label on one CD. The rarity of the original releases has resulted in copies of the two LPs being much sought after.
Unfortunately, little is known about Loukas Daralas. He was born in Athens in 1927 and died in 1977. In an interview George Dalaras
George Dalaras
George Dalaras , also possibly spelled as Yorgos or Giorgos Dalaras, is a Greek singer. He is of international fame and has recently been selected as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. He was born in Nea Kokinia, Piraeus. His father was Loukas Daralas, a singer of rebetiko.-Early...
once described his father as a free man who travelled a lot and seldom spent time at home.