12 Facts About Lefteris Papadopoulos

Lefteris Papadopoulos is a Greek lyricist, writer and journalist.

Lefteris Papadopoulos was born in Athens, Greece on 14 November 1935.

Lefteris Papadopoulos was the son of Greek Pontian refugees, with a father from a village near Bursa in Turkey and a mother from a village near Novorossiysk in Russia.

Lefteris Papadopoulos's parents were expelled in 1924 during the population exchange between Greece and Turkey.

Lefteris Papadopoulos enrolled at the Law School of the University of Athens but stopped during his third year in order to work as a journalist.

Since 1959 Papadopoulos has worked in the newspaper Ta Nea and has become a popular columnist over time.

Lefteris Papadopoulos has written the lyrics for about 1,200 songs and has co-worked with nearly all of the well-known musicians, composers and singers of his generation, namely Mikis Theodorakis, Stavros Xarhakos, Manos Loizos, Stavros Koujioumtzis, Mimis Plessas, Christos Nikolopoulos, Stelios Kazantzidis, Grigoris Bithikotsis, George Dalaras, Marinella, Viki Mosholiou and others.

In 1969, composer Mimis Plessas's work of songs "O Dromos", to which Lefteris Papadopoulos contributed the lyrics, became the fastest selling Greek album.

Lefteris Papadopoulos contributed lyrics to some Greek songs from 1960 to 1990.

Lefteris Papadopoulos wrote a few literary books, and one about the lyricist Eftichia Papagianopoulou.

Lefteris Papadopoulos has presented various programmes about Greek Music on television; the most recent, entitled "Makrines Filies", was broadcast on National Television, ERT.

Lefteris Papadopoulos is married to a theatrical director and has a son and a daughter as well as two grandchildren.