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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
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In a course mapped out by folk art music, 1972 is a milestone. The composer Dimos
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in front of a near capacity crowd. He performed many of his famous songs that had been written in the earlier stages of his career as well as more recent songs which continue to be popular among Greeks, such as "Roza", "Panta gelastoi", "Ta
Ladadika" and many more. It was at this concert that he
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Following his performance at Radio City, Mitropanos cancelled the remainder of his North
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and the soprano Julia
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Mitropanos performed a North
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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
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