Dimitris Mitropanos
| Dimitrios "Dimitris" Mitropanos Δημήτρης Μητροπάνος |
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| Birth name | Dimitrios Mitropanos |
| Also known as | Dimitris |
| Born |
2 April 1948 Trikala, Greece |
| Died | 17 April 2012 (aged 64) Athens, Greece |
| Genres | Laiko |
| Occupation(s) | Singer |
| Years active | 1964–2012 |
Dimitrios "Dimitris" Mitropanos (Greek: Δημήτρης Μητροπάνος) (2 April 1948 – 17 April 2012) was a Greek singer. He was renowned for his mastery of Laïkó, a Greek music style.
Mitropanos lived in his native city of Trikala in northwest Thessaly until the age of 16, beginning his musical career in 1964.
He worked with some of the renown Greek composers, such as Mikis Theodorakis,Stavros Xarhakos, Giorgos Zabetas, Manos Hatzidakis, Marios Tokas, and Thanos Mikroutsikos.
From an early age, Mitropanos worked summers to help his family financially. First as a waiter in his uncle's restaurant and later at ribbon cutting wood. After the third grade of junior high, in 1964, he went to Athens to live with his uncle on Acharnon Street. Before finishing high school, he began working as a singer.
At that time, with some encouragement from Grigoris Bithikotsis, whom he met at a gathering at his uncle's company at which he sang, Mitropanos visited EMI-Lambropoulos Bros. Ltd.(EMIAL S.A.) There, Takis Lampropoulos introduced him το Giorgos Zampetas, with whom he would work alongside at "Ksimeromata." Mitropanos considered Giorgos Zampetas to be a great teacher and a second father to himself. As he stated, ' Zambetas is the only man in music who helped me without expecting anything. With all my other colleagues, I got something and I gave something in return». In 1966 Mitropanos met Mikis Theodorakis and sang the Party songs "Romiosini "and" Axion Esti "in a series of concerts in Greece and Cyprus.
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