EDITOR’S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis). I grew up just a couple of miles from the neighborhood where Zambetas lived much of his life (“Egaleo City,” he and all of us called it to make fun of the situation – and the impoverished surroundings). I can tell you that you could sense his powerful presence everywhere around our so-called “Western Suburbs” in Athens. In this particular song, the tremendous talent of the singer “Madalena” shines… What a tragic story she has (link here)!! By the late 1960s, her fame had passed the Greek borders, and she and Zambetas were performing even at NATO headquarters in Brussels!! Then, on a tour in Canada, she became pregnant in her relationship with a bouzouki player. She gave birth to the child and then (from what Zambetas writes in his autobiography) this “man” forced her to give the child for adoption… she went back to find her child but had no luck… The feeling of guilt followed her to her death in 1988 from heart failure at only the age of 41!!… I am already in tears… But as they say, great songs are performed by a heart overflowing with emotions…
Enjoy the song! It is an excellent way to celebrate Labor Day! Also, listening to the song, you will know why Aristotle Onassis spent the nights at the club where Zambetas performed on every visit to Athens!
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How times have changed. Now in 21st century Greece Baptism and Wedding celebrations on same day.
It happened slowly until the “powers that be”, i.e. the globalists, stepped on the gas and reached the point to send Kasselakis to work with Mitsotakis and destroy the moral spine of a traditionally Conservative Orthodox nation. Orthodoxy and traditional Greece were a big roadblock in their effort to create a global human pulp, with no religious or national identity.