Papadakis Manos (Jr)

Manos Papadakis was born in Heraklion of Crete, in Greece at 1980.
 
His first musical steps were in Sitia, where his origin is.He studied the violin with Evmenoula Spithaki, and continued with Iraklis Thanasis and he participated in the small orchestra of Heraklion.
In 1994 he “borns”the band ‘ifesis’with George Tzortzakis ,Makis Fasoulakis ,Antonis Tsikandilakis,Mihalis Tampakakis and George Kymionis,and they performed all over Crete.
 
At 1999 he starts studying Philosophy ,Archeology and History of Arts at the University of Crete and performs with his friend and composer Odysseas Grammatikakis in music scenes at Rethimnon.
 
In 2003 comes his greatest music moment when Yiannis Markopoulos chose him as one of his new vocal soloists and they performed all around Greece and Cyprus until 2005.
 
He has been on stage with Kostas Makedonas, Haralambos Garganourakis, Zaharias Spiridakis, Miltos Pashalidis, Ypogeia Reymata, Mariza Kwx, Giannis Giokarinis, Stelios Bikakis and others.