Birth name Stamatis Spanoudakis Years active 1971–present | Name Stamatis Spanoudakis Role Composer | |
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Born 11 December 1948 (age 75)
Athens, Greece ( 1948-12-11 ) Genres Instrumental, religious, soundtracks and songs Occupation(s) Composer, lyricist, arranger, producer and performer Instruments Vocals, keyboards, piano, electric and acoustic guitars, bass, bouzouki and drums Labels Philips, Seagull, ΕΜΙ, Lyra, MINOS EMI, CBS/Sony Music, Polydor, Warner Music, Stam Studio Albums In a Classical Mood, Facing the Audience, Tanirama Associated acts Demis Roussos, Eleni Vitali, Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Manoles Metsias, Yiannis Parios, Vassilis Saleas, Petros Gaitanos Music director Brides, Stone Years, It's a Long Road, Angel Similar People Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Yiannis Parios, Alkistis Protopsalti, Petros Gaitanos, Manoles Metsias Profiles | ||
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Stamatis Spanoudakis - Σταμάτης Σπανουδάκης (born December 11, 1948 in Athens, Greece) is a modern Greek classical composer. Early on he studied classical guitar. He went through a rock music phase, but then continued classical studies at the Würzburg State Conservatory with Bertold Hummel and later in Athens with Konstantinos Kydoniatis. Later on he studied Byzantine music.
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Kithares - Stamatis Spanoudakis
Biography
Stamatis Spanoudakis was born in Athens Greece. Very early on he began to occupy himself with music.
He first studied Classical music ( guitar and theory ). He later played bass guitar and keyboards in a number of bands, in the sixties and the seventies, in Athens, Paris and London where he lived and recorded his first albums.
He later returned to Classical music and resumed his studies of composition, first in Wurzburg Germany with professor Bertold Hummel and then in Athens with professor Konstantinos Kydoniatis.
He was then attracted to his third love - Byzantine music, which led him to Greek songwriting and instrumental music.
Since then he is consciously trying to reconcile his three musical influences (Rock, classical and Byzantine), in his music.
He wrote numerous hit songs (words and music) for most major Greek singers.
He also wrote the music for many successful films in Greece, Germany and Italy, for the theater and television and has recorded so far more than sixty albums.
Since 1995, he concentrates on instrumental music, based on Greek historical or religious themes, a music that has an unprecedent appeal in Greece.
Stamatis lives in a quiet suburb with his wife Dori and their four dogs. He has his own studio where he records his music, being the composer, arranger, producer, performer and engineer of his work.
An introduction
He has worked with the most successful Greek singers, composing the music and writing the lyrics for a large number of hit songs. (I akti, Pame gi’alles polities, Lathos epohi, Simera, Efiges noris, Zoi klemmeni, Kalimera ti kanis, etc). With his religious works, he has provided a very different perspective of contemporary byzantine music. (Kyrie ton Dynameon, Efta Paraklisis, Imera Triti, Earini Ora, etc). He has made numerous soundtracks (Colours of Iris, Angel, Sudden Love, Stone Years, All in a road, Brides etc). From 1994 he composes instrumental music exclusively. A music that embraces Greece's history and religion (Alexandros, John’s Tear, Marble King, For Smyrni, A Piece of My Soul, Moments Gone, Alexandros II, Rejoice my sea etc).