Portokaloglou Nikos

1957 (December 30th): He is born in Volos. His father, a refugee from Smyrni, works there for an oil company. His mother is a native, with roots in two villages of the area, Almyros and Mitzela. He is the second child of the family, after one brother who is older by four years.
1958 - 1961: Due to his father work, the family moves to Crete for a year, then returns to Volos for a while, and finally settles in Athens, in the suburb of Nea Smyrni
1963 - 1969: Primary school years. He studies at the 3rd, the 1st and the 6th school of Nea Smyrni. In the third grade he meets Odysseas Tsakalos, the person who will later become his main partner in the creation of the band FATME, as well as in his personal career, and who at the time was simply…the best football player of the school.
1969: Junior High school student at the Evangelical School of Nea Smyrni. His basic interests, besides schoolwork, are drawing and football. His first musical influences, via his parents, are the easy listening songs of the earlier years, the songs of Hadjidakis with Nana Mouschouri, international artists of the period such as Frank Sinatra and Yves Montant, and some other pieces of classical music.