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Unfortunately, living conditions were extremely difficult and my childhood plans to become a lyre player subsided into a dream. In 1948 I met Alekos Karavitis, a great folk artist and lyre player at the time. He lived in Athens. He asked me to follow him to the capital and promised to make a master of the lyre out of me. So I did, but life in Athens was even harder and had to plunge myself to work, setting aside my dream for some time. When I came back home later, I worked for a fellow villager who promised to compensate me with a lyre instead of money. Soon, however, I was called to the army and was fortunate enough to serve in Moires where people that time were folk music connoisseurs. I am deeply in debt to these people because they helped me make my dream come true. When I was discharged from the army, I had already decided to become a professional lyre player... Full article and interview (in Greek) in STIGMES magazine no 61 Order securely online Cretan music from Creta Shop
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