Description
Stratos Dionisiou / ΣΤΡΑΤΟΣ ΔΙΟΝΥΣΙΟΥ
ΟΙ ΜΕΓΑΛΥΤΕΡΕΣ ΕΠΙΤΥΧΙΕΣ
UPC 724352969722
AUDIO CD 2000
Made in Greece / EU
Label EMI
Father of Στέλιος Διονυσίου and Άγγελος Διονυσίου.
TRACKLIST:
Pios allos
Sto stathmo tou monahou
Ke tote monos
Akou vre file
Ke ti den kano
Vrehi fotia sti strata mou
Ke kege lege
Afilotimi
Ipokrinese
Ego o xenos
Apokimithika
Ena lepto peripetia
Arga ine pia arga
Ta pires ola
Tis ginekas e kardia
O Salonikios
Agapi mou epikindini
Kardia mou ihes agapisi
Mas ipohreoses
Ego na dis
1. ΠΟΙΟΣ ΑΛΛΟΣ
2. ΣΤΟ ΣΤΑΘΜΟ ΤΟΥ ΜΟΝΑΧΟΥ
3. ΚΑΙ ΤΟΤΕ ΜΟΝΟΣ
4. ΑΚΟΥ ΒΡΕ ΦΙΛΕ
5. ΚΑΙ ΤΙ ΔΕΝ ΚΑΝΩ
6. BΡΕΧΕΙ ΦΩΤΙΑ ΣΤΗ ΣΤΡΑΤΑ ΜΟΥ
7. ΚΑΙ ΛΕΓΕ ΛΕΓΕ
8. ΑΦΙΛΟΤΙΜΗ
9. ΥΠΟΚΡΙΝΕΣΑΙ
10. ΕΓΩ Ο ΞΕΝΟΣ
11. ΑΠΟΚΟΙΜΗΘΗΚΑ
12. ΕΝΑ ΛΕΠΤΟ ΠΕΡΙΠΤΕΡΑ
13. ΑΡΓΑ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΠΙΑ ΑΡΓΑ
14. ΤΑ ΠΗΡΕΣ ΟΛΑ
15. ΤΗΣ ΓΥΝΑΙΚΑΣ Η ΚΑΡΔΙΑ
16. Ο ΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΙΟΣ
17. ΑΓΑΠΗ ΜΟΥ ΕΠΙΚΙΝΔΥΝΗ
18. ΚΑΡΔΙΑ ΜΟΥ ΕΙΧΕΣ ΑΓΑΠΗΣΕΙ
19. ΜΑΣ ΥΠΟΧΡΕΩΣΕΣ
20. ΕΓΩ ΝΑ ΔΕΙΣ
Stratos Dionysiou (November 8, 1935 - May 11, 1990), was a Greek laika and elafro-laika singer who featured predominantly in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
Dionysiou left Thessaloniki for Athens to further his singing career. He appeared in Nikaia night club "Asteras" with well-established singer Kaity Grey and in 1959 recorded his first song. The 24-year-old singer was signed by recording company "Columbia" and started singing songs by Babis Bakalis, Kostas Virvos and others with some success. He next re-recorded older songs by laika masters such as Vassilis Tsitsanis, Yiannis Papaioannou, Giorgos Mitsakis and Manolis Chiotis. Success, however would not come until the late 1960s when he turned several Akis Panos songs into hits: "Και τι δεν κάνω" (What don't I do), "Γιατί καλέ γειτόνισσα" (Why, my good neighbour?), "Του κόσμου το περίγελο" (The laughing stock of the World), "Εγώ καλά σου τα 'λεγα" (I told you so), "Στο σταθμό του Μονάχου" (At Munich Station), "Ήταν ψεύτικα" (They were false) and many others.
Composer Mimis Plessas then came into the picture and gave him his mega hit "Βρέχει φωτιά στη στράτα μου" (Fire is raining down my path), a song whose lyrics were written by Lefteris Papadopoulos. Dionysiou toured the United States with great success. He was rising to stardom, when his career was abruptly halted by his arrest due to a gun and cannabis possession. He was sentenced to two years imprisonment which he served in Nea Tiryntha, Argolis prefecture.
Dionysiou recorded even in prison and continued after his release in 1976. He successfully switched from laika to a more western "elafro-laiko" ("elafro" meaning light) a lighter and brighter form of the Laïko genre and enjoyed great popularity even with the younger crowd into the 1980s.
Laïkó (Greek: λαϊκό τραγούδι, pronounced [laiˈko traˈɣuði], "song of the people"; "popular song", pl: laïká [tragoudia]), is a Greek music genre composed in Greek language in accordance with the tradition of the Greek people. Also called folk song or urban folk music (Gr: αστική λαϊκή μουσική or λαϊκά τραγούδια laïká tragoudia), in its plural form is a Greek music genre which has taken many forms over the years. Laïkó followed after the commercialization of Rebetiko music. It is strongly dominated by Greek folk music and it is used to describe Greek popular music as a whole. When used in context, it refers mostly to the form it took in the period from the 1950s to the 1980s.
