Galani Dimitra

Dimitra Galani was born in Athens. Her career began as early as adolesence. In 1968, she contributed to the album of D. Moutsis -Н. Gkatsos, "Ena chamogelo" (= a smile), with two songs; that contribution turned out to be the beginning of a long career in the history of music of both her era and Greece. She became a great performer gifted with a beautiful voice and a strong personality that has always prompted her to look into the reasons behind everything.

She has sung the songs of almost every Greek composer (Chatzidakis, Theodorakis, Tsitsanis, Moutsis, Xarchakos, Spanos, Loizos, , Mikroutsikos, Vagelis Papathanasiou,, Savvopoulos, Chatzinasios, Chalaris, Kraounakis and others) and has confirmed the words of some of the most important lyric-writers and poets ( Papadopoulos, Tripolitis, Nikolakopoulou, or Gatsos, Palamas, Elytis, Kavafis, Kavadias ).

Her career currently includes well over 80 albums, and varies from pure Greek folk music to Byzantine hymns and easy listening performances. Her music touch has always been tender, profound in other occasions, but always precise and balanced where feelings are involved. Throughout the years, her performance has grown to be the third certifying signature on songs, alongside those of the composer and lyric-writer .

She belongs to a "generation of leaders", who for almost three decades have underlined and supported -each in his or her own way -quality Greek songs contributing at the same time to a colorful rainbow of great voices. As a matter of fact, she chose to start her career by staying close to songwriters, letting initially time and later tendencies in the music industry guide her.

As from 1981, her choices in terms of the fields of music, have been very prudent, being "Harama" by Tsitsanis in Kaisariani, the very peak moment in her career. That production was more of a new way of entertainment along with Lina Nikolakopoulou, the lyric-writer, that actually changed the entire course of music history over last past three years.

After a 30 year-long career in music, it was not at all surprising that she entered the world of music-writers. She writes music for television or film productions, she promotes young and talented performers or simply writes music for herself.

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