Dinata Dinata
| "Dinata" | ||||
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| Song by Eleftheria Arvanitaki | ||||
| from the album Meno Ektos | ||||
| Released | 1991 | |||
| Genre | Laika | |||
| Label | PolyGram/Polydor | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Ara Dinkjian, Lina Nikolakopoulou | |||
| Meno Ektos track listing | ||||
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| "Homecoming" | |
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| Song by Night Ark | |
| from the album Picture | |
| Released | 1986 |
| Songwriter(s) | Ara Dinkjian, Lina Nikolakopoulou |
| "Dinata Dinata" | |
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| Single by Antique | |
| from the album Mera Me Ti Mera | |
| Released | 11 November 1999 |
| Format | CD single |
| Genre | Laïko, Eurodance |
| Length | 3:17 |
| Label | Bonnier Music, Virgin Schallplatten |
| Songwriter(s) | A. Dinkjian, L. Nikolakopoulou |
| Producer(s) | C&N Project & Adebratt |
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Dinata or Dynata is a song from the album Meno Ektos; its music was composed by Ara Dinkjian, its lyrics written by Lina Nikolakopoulou and it was first sung by Eleftheria Arvanitaki while Arto Tuncboyaciyan features in non verbal singing and percussion in some versions and performances of it; it mixes the influence of Balkan, Greek and Armenian music with electronics. This song, among the others on Meno Ektos, made Arvanitaki a big name in Greece; a notable performance of it by her was at the closing ceremony of the 2004 Athens Olympics, during the fireworks and after the flame had been extinguished.
The Greek word , dinata or alternatively dynata, can be interpreted as either a neuter plural adjective meaning "strong", "powerful", "possible" or "loud", or as an adverb meaning "strongly", "powerfully", "loudly"; although this word in this song has probably as per the lyrics context and at least in some verses, the sense of possible, being sung loudly at the refrain it can be thus understood as acquiring at that point the (meta-)meaning of loud or loudly; hence possibly the various differing attested translations. The word shares a linguistic root with English words like dynamo and dynamic, i.e. they are all derived (at times through ) from the ancient Greek verb δύνασθαι, dynasthai, i.e. "to be able, strong enough to do".
Various versions of Dinata exist. The song or rather the music was first published in 1986 as an instrumental piece by Night Ark (see below), whence its "official" English title, i.e. Homecoming.
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