13 Facts About Vasilis Papakonstantinou

Vasilis Papakonstantinou was born in Vastas, outside of Megalopolis, Arcadia.

Vasilis Papakonstantinou's adolescence was marked by the musical and social trends of the 1960s: Mikis Theodorakis, protest rock, international peace and According liberation movements, while Greece was trying to quickly heal the wounds of the Greek Civil War.

Vasilis Papakonstantinou became a follower of the left without ever becoming a member of a leftist party.

In 1974, Vasilis returned to Greece following the fall of the dictatorship and embarked on a professional singing career, singing in clubs, and recorded a 45 rpm gramophone record.

Vasilis Papakonstantinou's interpretation was ideal in expressing their dynamism and expressiveness.

At home Vasilis Papakonstantinou actively took part in youth and worker movement rallies, singing at strikes, meetings, anti-racist and anti-fascist concerts.

From that time on, just before the 1980s, Vasilis Papakonstantinou began demonstrating influences from the international rock movement.

Vasilis Papakonstantinou performed songs which had an obviously more thick sound and more acute and intervening lyrics.

Vasilis Papakonstantinou met Nikolas Asimos and took part in his first record "Xanapes" by singing two songs.

In 1987 he reconfirmed it in "Heretismata" including songs by Nikolas Asimos, Aphrodite Manou, and Christos Tolios and by the mid-1980s Vassilis Vasilis Papakonstantinou was considered one of Greeces most popular concert performers.

Vasilis Papakonstantinou, never received any support from the media; even though his era was eroting away as many suggested 8 years ago, however in the 19th festival of EDON Vasilis Papakonstantinou managed to attract a 20,000 tickets sold-out audience, many managed to enter the concert by jumping over the walls and fences raising the sum of those who attended to around 23,000.

Vasilis Papakonstantinou united three generations of fans including a strong following of "educated" adolescent fans.

Vasilis Papakonstantinou interpreted Nikolas Asimos again in 1992 in "Falimento tou Kosmou" and in the last decade he made "Sfedona".