BIOGRAPHY
Manos Papadakis was born in Heraklion of Crete, in Greece at 1980.His first musical steps were in Sitia, where his origin is.He studied the violin with Evmenoula Spithaki, and continued with Iraklis Thanasis and he participated in the small orchestra of Heraklion.
In 1994 he “borns”the band ‘ifesis’with George Tzortzakis ,Makis Fasoulakis ,Antonis Tsikandilakis,Mihalis Tampakakis and George Kymionis,and they performed all over Crete.At 1999 he starts studying Philosophy ,Archeology and History of Arts at the University of Crete and performs with his friend and composer Odysseas Grammatikakis in music scenes at Rethimnon.
In 2003 comes his greatest music moment when Yiannis Markopoulos chose him as one of his new vocal soloists and they performed all around Greece and Cyprus until 2005.
He has been on stage with Kostas Makedonas, Haralambos Garganourakis, Zaharias Spiridakis, Miltos Pashalidis, Ypogeia Reymata, Mariza Kwx, Giannis Giokarinis, Stelios Bikakis and others.
At 2007 he produces his first compact disk by the title “pote pikros pote glykos” (sometimes bitter other times sweet) in collaboration with the music company of Seistron (www.aerakis.net). The famous singer Haralambos Garganourakis sings the end of a song called “prosfygopouli” and the lyrics are from N.Kazantzakis, Lyda Anastasopoulou, Kostis Dimoulas, Stelios Mpikakis and Manos Papadakis.The recording took place at Astra studio in Crete and at stouNicola in Athens, started at May 2006, finished at June 2007.
The record is based in the harmony of the past, the reality of the present and the dreaming of future, with a glance at the roots and an exceptional sound, feelings and smoothness, passion and truth. In the recording participate musicians from Greece ,such as George Tzortzakis , Dimitris Neonakis , Nikolas Hristopoulos , Dimitris Giannopoulos , Manolis Kanakakis , Zaharias Spiridakis , Katerina Androulaki , Apostolos Ksiritakis , Hansen Sorren and Giannis Kassotakis singing with Manos Papadakis the duet 'lipi' .
Have a nice listening…
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