14 Facts About Lefteris Hapsiadis

Lefteris Hapsiadis was a Greek contemporary songwriter, poet, and writer of novels.

Lefteris Hapsiadis had collaborated with various music composers and had occasionally worked as a record producer.

Lefteris Hapsiadis was born in 1953 in Feres, and lived during his early life in Koila, both agglomerations located in the Greek Prefecture of Evros.

Lefteris Hapsiadis referred to Koila as his "Paradise on Earth", and he spent a major part of his life there.

Lefteris Hapsiadis has been loyal to his Pontos origins and he has often collaborated in various artistic initiatives to preserve the cultural heritage of the land of his ancestors.

Lefteris Hapsiadis was fairly knowledgeable of the Pontos Greek dialect that he learned from his parents and grandmother in Koila.

Lefteris Hapsiadis attended high school in Alexandroupolis, the administrative capital of Evros.

When most of his age peers enjoyed pop and rock, Lefteris Hapsiadis was discovering little known events and details surrounding rebetika songs, their performers and lyrics.

Lefteris Hapsiadis developed a habit of collecting rebetika lyrics and writing them down in a notebook as his favorite pastime.

Lefteris Hapsiadis met Giorgos Dalaras, and through him he later came close to quite a few key actors in the Greek pop music industry.

Lefteris Hapsiadis became close friends with Vassilis Vassilikos, a prominent novels writer.

Lefteris Hapsiadis died on 2 October 2023, at the age of 69 from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Greece.

Lefteris Hapsiadis was inspired by this to write two emotional songs, Alexandroupoli meria, originally performed by Dimitris Mitropanos, and Oresteiada, performed by Stelios Dionysiou and Ploutarchos.

Lefteris Hapsiadis often offers his own insights in the evolution of rebetika from the times of Markos Vamvakaris and Vassilis Tsitsanis to the present day.