Instruments Vocals, guitar Years active 1960-present | Name Ariadne Tsapra Role Musician | |
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Full name Ariadne Nicoleta Tsapra Birth name Ariadne Nicoleta Tsapra Born March 3, 1945Athens, Greece ( 1945-03-03 ) Occupation(s) Musician, composer, songwriter, author, illustrator Labels Lyra, CBS, Columbia, Portrait, Ακτή, Legend Albums Exi Meres, Ena Kapelo Me Tragoudia, Taxidevontas Similar People Lakis Papadopoulos, Notis Mavroudis, Manos Hadjidakis, Giannis Spanos, Mikis Theodorakis | ||
Arleta (Greek: Αρλέτα; 3 May 1945 – 8 August 2017; real name Αργυρώ - Νικολέτα Τσάπρα Argyro - Nicoleta Tsapra) was a Greek musician, author and book illustrator.
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Biography
Arleta was born in Athens in 1945. She studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts.
She published her first album of her own creation (Ένα Καπέλο με Τραγούδια, A hat with songs) in 1960. In the beginning of her career she worked with many well-known Greek composers like Giannis Spanos, Manos Hatzidakis and Mikis Theodorakis. Her first great successes came with songs whose music was written by Lakis Papadopoulos and lyrics by Marianina Kriezi. She performed with great success in the Athens boîte scene. In 1997 her book, Από πού πάνε για την Άνοιξη (Whereto does one go to get to Spring) was released, a book that includes her own illustrations.
On February 11, 2008, just a few minutes before a planned performance at Volos, Arleta suffered a stroke. She underwent surgery, with recovery after a lengthy hospitalizatoin and year of rehabilitation.
Death
In January 2017, she suffered another stroke and remained in hospital, where she passed away on 8 August 2017, aged 72.