Diamantidis Antonis i Dalgkas

He started from the age of 16 playing oud in Constantinople, and at 18 he was already an established singer, singing in the cafe aman and the panigiria of the City. The nick name "Dalgkas" was issued for his excellent voice, and which he remained known. In 1922 he came to Greece, worked with many musical forms, in which he sang amanedes, songs of Asia Minor, rebetika, European, light, traditional, and as a musician he played the oud and the nine chord guitar. In 1926 he made his first recording with the “Minore mane” . He has recorded more than 430 titles, of which 89 amanedes, and has written 78 of his own compositions. Since 1934, he dealt with highly paid performances in a tavern in Koukaki Athens, leaving aside the recordings, while the last he made where in the late'30s. With the entry of the Germans in Athens in 1941 he stopped the performances and in 1945 he died.