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[magic]

HanabiChick, on 29 November 2011 - 04:48 PM, said:

He left a few years ago, I think he just wasn't happy here so he started living in France, then he went to Hong Kong.

and why do he wants to move back after few years? Is it cause of missing his family?

[HanabiChick]

He hasn't said why he's coming back, but it could be that it's hard to find work and get a work visa in Hong Kong. He has a visa, but it's not easy to get one.

[Sharon007]

My best friend Paul lost his dad on Friday 18th nov. The only mentioned it on Facebook recently. Although I knew his dad was very sick. Memories of my own dad passing are coming back to me because of the news.

[Phantom]

Sharon007, on 30 November 2011 - 11:11 AM, said:

My best friend Paul lost his dad on Friday 18th nov. The only mentioned it on Facebook recently. Although I knew his dad was very sick. Memories of my own dad passing are coming back to me because of the news.

that's very sad

I wish the dad of your friend rest in peace

[magic]

Sharon007, on 30 November 2011 - 11:11 AM, said:

My best friend Paul lost his dad on Friday 18th nov. The only mentioned it on Facebook recently. Although I knew his dad was very sick. Memories of my own dad passing are coming back to me because of the news.

I am very sorry to hear that. He doesn't know me but my deepest condolence to Paul. It's one of the hardest things to go through in life.

[Sharon007]

yes its really tough when a parent dies as we always think they will be around

[Phantom]

tonight I found out that a woman I knew died...

[magic]

Phantom, on 08 December 2011 - 12:33 AM, said:

tonight I found out that a woman I knew died...

I am sorry to hear that! Was she close to you?

[Phantom]

magic, on 08 December 2011 - 01:54 AM, said:

I am sorry to hear that! Was she close to you?

she was the wife of the priest to whom I go, when I want to pray

I was more close with her husband

I will go to her funeral tomorrow

I like her husband very much, he is a very good priest

[soap]

Phantom, on 08 December 2011 - 09:50 AM, said:

she was the wife of the priest to whom I go, when I want to pray

I was more close with her husband

I will go to her funeral tomorrow

I like her husband very much, he is a very good priest

Is it normal to know priests in Greece?

[Phantom]

soap, on 08 December 2011 - 10:06 PM, said:

Is it normal to know priests in Greece?

it depends

if you go often to the church, you might get to know some priests...

[soap]

Phantom, on 08 December 2011 - 10:46 PM, said:

it depends

if you go often to the church, you might get to know some priests...

But you don't talk to priests in the church. They just talk and everybody listen.

[Phantom]

soap, on 08 December 2011 - 10:48 PM, said:

But you don't talk to priests in the church. They just talk and everybody listen.

this priest is a friend of my father

[Phantom]

I am sad because today died one of the greatest greek singers...

[Sharon007]

Phantom, on 17 April 2012 - 09:19 PM, said:

I am sad because today died one of the greatest greek singers...

oh no sorry to hear that can you tell me more about this singer?

[Phantom]

Sharon007, on 18 April 2012 - 06:23 PM, said:

oh no sorry to hear that can you tell me more about this singer?

An authentic interpreter and man of few words



An authentic interpreter of the popular Greek folk music style known as “laiko,” Dimitris Mitropanos was an endearing and honest man, according to local music legend Giorgos Zampetas. Known as Mitsos to his family and friends, Mitropanos was recognized as an artist who served and honored Greek music.
The singer died on Tuesday at the age of 64 in Athens after suffering pulmonary edema caused by a heart attack.
Reserved and modest, he was never tempted by the kind of excess which defined his trade. He was a man of few, honest words, as he liked to say.
Mitropanos did not have an easy childhood. He was serious, equipped with a singular sense of humor and was also free of the complexes that certain of his fellow artists carry with them.
He was known for his ability to combine different music genres and open to all sorts of artistic collaborations, but above all he was passionate about laiko music.
He was also a family man, who early on took care of his mother and sister before marrying Venia and starting his own family in the 1990s. He leaves two daughters, Anastasia and Myrsini.
His stage presence had an old-style flair: He had the finesse and severity of Grigoris Bithikotsis, although he was a known fan of Stelios Kazantzidis.
It was Bithikotsis who had urged the young Mitropanos to become a singer during an encounter at the popular Plakiotiko Saloni venue in Athens. Bithikotsis had subsequently escorted him to Columbia Records, where he introduced him to the legendary Takis Lambropoulos, who, in turn, presented him to the master, Zampetas.
As Zampetas and Mitropanos developed a father-and-son relationship the young singer’s career took off. He had already left behind his native Aghia Moni, a village dubbed “Little Moscow” for its left-leaning convictions on the outskirts of Trikala, Thessaly, where he was born in 1948.
Mitropanos had lived his early years as an orphan, until a letter from Romania contradicted the belief that his father had been killed during the Greek Civil War. “I met him when I was 28,” Mitropanos said in an interview with Kathimerini in 2000.
After moving to Athens, he had lived with an uncle on Acharnon Street. He worked as a singer alongside Zampetas, attended school in the mornings and became involved in left-wing political activities in his spare time. His political involvement had been unavoidable and until the very end he was a dedicated supporter of those in need. He voiced his opinions, got angry and was known for criticizing the left. “No matter what they end up doing in life, I wish for them to stand up for what they believe in, for their personal freedom,” he had said on the subject of his daughters in an interview last October. In the same interview he had spoken ardently regarding the issue of an equitable state.
“If a private citizen is handed a 10-year-old prison sentence for stealing money from the state, then a public figure who is in power should serve double the time for the same offense. And, most importantly, politicians should provide information regarding their properties when they enter and exit the political arena,” he said.
He was also one of the first artists to point out the local music scene’s decline.
“As soon as music left its creators and passed onto the singers, everything started going wrong. The latter thought they would conduct their own revolution but they didn’t have the necessary weapons. The voice alone is not enough,” he said.
Meanwhile, he worked with Greece’s leading composers and lyricists. Over the years, he collaborated with Mikis Theodorakis, Giorgos Zampetas, Dimos Moutsis, Apostolos Kaldaras, Christos Nikolopoulos, Yiannis Spanos, Takis Mousafiris, Giorgos Katsaros, Marios Tokas, Thanos Mikroutsikos, Dimitris Papadimitriou and Dimitris Korakakis, among others, while his last album was a collaboration with Stamatis Kraounakis. He also participated in album recordings by local rockers Lakis Papadopoulos and Nikos Portokaloglou.
“Are you afraid of death?” I had asked timidly during our last meeting. “What’s there to be afraid of? We’re all going to die anyway,” had been his response. He had spent most of our time together talking about the problems plaguing the Greek health system, helpless pensioners and the so-called “Indignants” on Syntagma Square, as opposed to his own health issues.
“He was a strong and proud man,” said Mikis Theodorakis on Tuesday, while Kraounakis, speaking on public radio, used the following words to describe the loss: “The door of ‘laiko’ music closed with a loud bang.”

Source: http://www.ekathimer.../04/2012_438266


a song with him (the song is in greek):

[magic]

I am sorry, Zoi, to hear that

[Sharon007]

I like the sound of his voice even though I dont know what he is singing about. In Ireland an actor died recently he was in Charlie & The Chocolate Factory the version with Johnny Depp. he played the Granddad. Also a singer died he played traditional music.