Rebetiko Music Interview with Bouzouki & Georgios Marinakis | RSI NEWS - Swiss Radiotelevision

Many thanks to RSI News, Italo Rondinella, and Filippo Cicciu for giving me the opportunity to share Rebetiko music and music thoughts of our culture by featuring me in the 1st Episode of "Greek Orthodox Community in Turkey".

Having lived in Instabul, Turkey for 20+ years I have had the honor of getting to know the Rum community and have tried to do my very best in supporting the continuation of Rebetiko music.

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REBETIKO - [ΡΕΜΠΕΤΙΚΟ]

Rebetiko Music (Greek: Ρεμπέτικο, Ρεμπέτικα) originated in the music of the larger, mainly coastal cities in todays Asia Minor with large Greek communities during the Ottoman Era.

A certain amount of recorded Greek material from the first two decades of the 20th century had been recorded in Constantinople/ Istanbul, Egypt and in America. During the 20th century, the main centre shifted to the multinational port of Smyrna (modern Izmir) in Asia Minor.

After the great fire of Smyrna, acclaimed musicians such as Panagiotis Toundas and Spyros Peristeris fled to Greece contributing to the development of the Rebetiko style music in Greece.

In the wake of the Asia Minor Catastrophe and the population exchange of 1923, huge numbers of refugees settled in Piraeus, Thessaloniki, Volos and other harbor cities gradually allowing Rebetiko music to generate a genuinely syncretic musical form and becoming the foundation of Greek music.

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Georgios Marinakis - Short Biography [EN]

Born in Kalamata in 1981, Georgios Marinakis is a Greek composer, musician, and luthier who resides in Istanbul, Turkey since 2003. He is a professional Oud (Ούτι - Ud - Ουτι) musician who attended Yıldız Technical University and graduated with a degree in Turkish music theory and music composition techniques.

Today, he is a recognized musician who has appeared in many TV and Radio talk shows such as TRT and the BBC. He has also contributed to large scale recordings and musical performances in Europe especially in Turkey, Greece and Cyprus including world famous festivals like the Yorgo Bacano Oud Festival.

He was a chanter for the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople for 15 years and now a pre - chantor at Ayios Stefanos in Yesilkoy. He has composed the music album that represents Turkey on the “International French Radio – (RFI)”.

He instructs Oud (Ούτι - Ud - Ουτι) at the “World Music” program at “Bahcesehir University - (BAU)” and establishing his luthier / string manufacturing company under the brand name "MARINAKIS".

He has also performed alongside music masters such as Ruhi Ayangil, Özer Özel, Göksel Baktagir, Yurdal Tokcan and Nedim Nalbantoğlu and has been invited by the Turkish Ministry of Culture to perform as a soloist for Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and former prime minister of Greece, Alexis Tsipras, at the Turkish Presidential Complex.

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