HARRIS
CHALKITIS
Harris
Chalkitis is one of the biggest
talents of his years.
Composer,orchestrator,singer
but first of all a great musician who plays good
piano,saxophone,drums,percussion and many more musical
instruments.
He was born in Cairo,Egypt.
From his first steps in life
she shows a strong interesting in music..
In 1961,Harris is in Greece and
he participates in a group named PLAYBOYS.This
was a famous pop group which guested two famous greek
singers,Dakis
and Filippos Nikolaou.
Next years find him in
Sweden.He cooperates with many local groups.
He offers a lot in Aphrodite's Child,a
group was made by Demis
Roussos,Vangelis
Papathanasiou and Loukas
Sideras.Chalkitis
collaborates with them in album 666.
His collaboration with Demis
Roussos keeps up after the end of Afrodite's
Child.Chalkitis
is in France now,he writes songs for Demis,he making
programming in his discs and he organises his
performances all over the world.
Moreover,he composes songs for
famous French or not singers.
In 1976 he wins the first award
in a famous French festival named ROSE D'OR.
Although he is very famous in
Europe he doesn't forget his country,Greece.In 1977 he
makes an attempt to insert in greek discography.Also he
writes songs for Fillipos Nikolaou.
In 1982 he shines as a singer
in SEOUL
SONG FESTIVAL.
In early eighties he decides to
move to Greece.The next years his
cooperations with greek
artists are many and very important for his career.In
1986,he cooperates with Stamatis
Craounakis,a famous greek
composer,at the album "Birimpa"(the
first album of a greek singer called Polina).The
mext year he takes part as a composer in her second gold
L.P. "Pame
gia treles stis Seyhelles".
In 1989,he writes 8 songs for
the album "Pehnidi
me ti fotia" of Dakis.The
song "Alaloum" reaches No1 on greek charts.
In 1990,she composes and
orchestrates the album "Ela Tora"
in latin rythms with Zanet Kapougia(a
singer who cames from South Amerika but she lives in
Greece)The songs "Ela tora","Mi m
eknevrizis","Ke me pas opou thelis" become
very popular.
In 1991 he releases his
personal L.P. "Kaftes
Vradies".The same named
song,a duet with Constantina
becomes very popular.She also gives songs to Polina
for his album "Stin
polithrona tin bamboo".
In 1992 he cooperates with
Dakis for one more time(L.P."Tsai me lemoni")
and he gives his song "Chronia mas polla" in gold
album "Esthisis"
of the well-known greek singer Mando.
In
addition to this he writes songs for the L.P.s "Sismos erotikos" and "Olo ke pio poli" with Efi
Sarri.
In 1993 he composes for the
first album of Athina Mavromati,entitled
"Zali".Lyrics
by Panos Falaras.
The next year he releases his
personal L.P. "Mazi
arga i grigora tha ginoume ano kato".Lyrics
was written by Antony Papas.The
ballad "Pare me psila" becomes a very popural
song.
The same year he follows
well-known singer Evridiki
in Eurovision Song Contest as the leader of vocals
group.(*I
have to write that in the last years he had made vocals
in discs of almost all greek singers.For example I
mention some names:Keti Garbi,Thanos
Kalliris,Mando,Paschalis,Sakis Rouvas,Dionisis Schinas
and many more)
Simultaneously he writes the
music for the first album of his daughter Victoria,entitled
"Erotas Ine"(Lyrics
by Natalia Germanou)and
the album "Ripsokindini
agapi" of Lilian
.In this album he participates as a singer.
In 1996 he makes the second Victoria's
L.P.(entitled "II")as
well as he composes the albums:"Krifa Taxidia"(of
Constantina's
brother Antros Konstantinou)
and "I proti
mou fora" of Amanta.
A few months ago the cd-single
"Anemos"
was released by the new artist Yiorgos
Katsinis.Music and lyrics was
written by Harris
Chalkitis.The whole CD of Yiorgos
Katsinis was released recently
entitled "Chalasmos".Chalkitis
wrote the music for the songs "Afiste tin na
figei" & "Tha magapas".
Harris
Chalkitis composes a lot of
jingles for radio and tv.
Finally he takes part as a
musician in many performances.I have to mention his
participation in great performance "Marinella in
Rex"...
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