Stavros xarhakos biography definition

Stavros Xarchakos was born in Athens , where he studied at the Athens Conservatoire. He has family origins from the Mani Peninsula. He emerged in the Greek music scene around , composing music for the theatre and cinema. Among his collaborators was lyricist Lefteris Papadopoulos and singer Nikos Xylouris. In he went to Paris to study with Nadia Boulanger.

Stavros xarhakos biography definition: Stavros Xarchakos was.

He served as director of the National Orchestra of Greek Music. He was again a candidate for the European Parliament with New Democracy , in the elections of 25 May , but was not elected. Stavros Xarchakos was born on March 14, , in the centre of Athens, where he lives to this day. He comes from Laconian Mani. Growing up in a neighbourhood of the capital, where the arts flourished, he came into contact with folk and rebetiko songs, but also with the European music, broadcast on the radio, while he was strongly influenced by church music.

He also received musical inspiration from his grandmother, who played the guitar and sang along with arias from operas and cantadas.