Domna Samiou

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Kaneloriza 00:00 Tools
The Worries of Life (Vasana pou hi i zoi) 03:23 Tools
Rousa Papadia (A Priest's Wife From Russia) 03:54 Tools
Stis Pikrodafnis Ton Antho (Sirtos Sta Tria - Ipirou) 03:28 Tools
Ehe Gia Panagia (Hasapiko Politiko) 02:42 Tools
Tzivaeri 01:15 Tools
To mouni to lene Giota 01:15 Tools
Oso Varoun Ta Sidera 03:13 Tools
Armenaki 03:16 Tools
Ena mouni stin kerasia 01:33 Tools
Aman Gel Aman (Karsilamas Mikras Asias) 03:55 Tools
To Mlar' To Mlar' (Komiko Mitilinis) 02:28 Tools
Apo Ta Glika Sou Matia (Pidihtos Naxou) 02:34 Tools
Sti Smirni Mes' Tin Armenia (Adikristos Mitilinis) 03:20 Tools
O Barba Mathios (Hasapiko Samou) 02:07 Tools
Ilie M' Ke Ti Polargiases (Argo Makedonias) 02:02 Tools
Ena mouni peneythke 03:20 Tools
Karotseris 02:07 Tools
San Ta Marmara Tis Polis 02:07 Tools
Kalesma 02:07 Tools
Zonaradikos 02:07 Tools
Ston Ourano Horevoune (Kritis) 02:07 Tools
At Dawn 02:07 Tools
Giatzilariani 02:07 Tools
Kalos Antamothikame 02:07 Tools
Dimitroula 02:07 Tools
Horos Koutalion 02:07 Tools
Kanelóriza (Asia Minor) 03:19 Tools
When I Was A Lad 03:19 Tools
Apo Ta Glyka Sou Matia 02:07 Tools
Karsilamas 03:45 Tools
The Water Of Life 03:45 Tools
Yio - Margio (From Cesme) 03:45 Tools
Gio - Mario 03:45 Tools
Tillyrkotissa [Syrto Kyprou] 02:16 Tools
Tzivaeri [Argo Dodekanisou] 02:56 Tools
Rousa papadia 03:57 Tools
Mpalos 02:56 Tools
Like The Marble Of The City 02:56 Tools
I Come And You Are Asleep 02:56 Tools
Gianni Mou To Madili Sou (Oh My Giannis, Your Neckcerchief) 03:50 Tools
Antikrystos Horos 02:56 Tools
Kato Stin Agia Marini 02:56 Tools
Ballos 02:56 Tools
Tziavarei 02:56 Tools
Sokiani 02:56 Tools
Pente deka papadies 03:57 Tools
Solo Violin 03:57 Tools
Wake Up My Black Eyed One 02:56 Tools
Dance (Karsilama) 02:56 Tools
I'll Jump from the Railings 02:56 Tools
M'exeis berdemeno 02:56 Tools
Roubalia - Garoufalia 02:56 Tools
Xypna Mavromatousa Mou 02:56 Tools
Roubalia - Carnation 02:56 Tools
Den Einai Avgi Na Sikotho 02:56 Tools
Arabas 04:16 Tools
Skamnia 03:57 Tools
Zagorisios Horos 03:57 Tools
Roumbalia 03:57 Tools
Dance (The Wooden Spoons) 03:57 Tools
Ballos From Alatsati 03:57 Tools
Giorgitsa 03:57 Tools
Karavi eni to spiti mou 03:57 Tools
To Ponemeno Stithos Mou 03:57 Tools
Ta Meliotakia 03:57 Tools
Gaida 03:57 Tools
Tillirkotissa 03:57 Tools
O Adriomenos 03:57 Tools
Well, Met 03:57 Tools
The Ship Is My House 03:57 Tools
Yatzilariani 03:57 Tools
Theia mou Nikolakaina 03:57 Tools
exe geia panagia 03:57 Tools
10. M' EHEIS BERNTEMENO 04:16 Tools
Solo Violi 04:16 Tools
Ρούσα Παπαδιά (A Priest's Wife From Russia) 04:16 Tools
Feto to kalokairaki 04:16 Tools
i trigona 04:16 Tools
The Widow 04:16 Tools
Eche Gia Panagia 02:43 Tools
Arabas [Karsilamas M.Asias] 03:19 Tools
to moyni to lene giota 03:19 Tools
Pos to triboun to piperi 03:19 Tools
You Have Entangled Me 03:19 Tools
O Aetos (Se Psilo Vouno) 03:19 Tools
Yiorgitsa (Karsilama) 03:19 Tools
Vassilikos Tha Yino 03:19 Tools
2. SAN TA MARMARA TIS POLIS 04:43 Tools
12. GIORGITSA 04:43 Tools
8. HOROS KOUTALION 02:16 Tools
Mian imera enas gatos 02:16 Tools
A Widow Bore a Child (Cappadocia) [The Song of Porphyris] 02:16 Tools
Gianni mou to mantili sou 02:16 Tools
Γιάννη Μου Το Μαντήλι Σου 02:16 Tools
Tsámikos 02:16 Tools
Aman Gel Aman 02:16 Tools
Why Did I Go and Fall for You 02:16 Tools
O Barba Mathios 02:16 Tools
balli di Smirne 02:16 Tools
The Little Meliots 02:16 Tools
Tin Trani tin Apokria 01:16 Tools
Enas geros irkountane 02:43 Tools
Tis megalis Apoukries 02:43 Tools
Saranta m΄nia mi kuklousan 02:43 Tools
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Domna Samiou (Δόμνα Σαμίου), born in 1928, in Athens, Greece, is a Greek musicologist, educator, and singer. Samiou’s mother fled to Greece from Turkey in 1922, her husband having been taken prisoner of war; each thought the other dead, but they were reunited after he was released in 1924. Domna Samiou was born in a refugee camp in Kesariani, Athens. Despite their deep poverty, the family used to sing around the stove on winter nights. Having been brought up with the music known as Smyrneika or Smyrniotika, a cosmopolitan music from Constantinople (now Istanbul) and Smyrna (now Izmir), mixing Eastern and Western influences, she experienced the development of Rembetika as smyrneika met and merged with the urban music of places like Piraeus. During World War II the family suffered under the Nazi occupation; both her father and her sister died of starvation. Samiou and her mother were saved by the Zannou family for whom her mother worked. It was Mrs Zannou who, recognising Samiou’s passion for music, arranged for her to audition at a music school run by the eminent musicologist Simon Karas. In the 1930s Karas, with no recording gear available, had transcribed folk songs by hand, in Byzantine notation, as they were sung by elderly people. In 1937 he had produced a pioneering series of authentic folk music records, and when in that same year he was appointed head of Folk Music for National Greek Radio, he had introduced it into the daily broadcasts. After hearing her sing, he took Samiou’s musical education education in hand, as well as making her complete her secondary school education. It was in the 1950s, shich brought a serious decline in Greek traditional music, that Samiou began her personal struggle to save it. In 1954 she got a job at Greek Radio, and started getting traditional songs on to the air. She travelling around Greece, recording thousands of folk songs in the villages, and releasing them on LPs. However, with the military coup in 1967, things changed. Although the new government also championed traditional music, and hired Samiou on a permanent basis, she resigned a few months later, unable to bear the political repression of the Colonels’ regime. She had decided to open a tourist shop in Parga, but instead ended up performing folk songs; at the age of 43 she started a professional career as a singer. Then, after the fall of the Colonels in 1974, Greek television broadcast a series of documentaries, which has since become rgarded as a modern classic, in which Samiou travelled around Greece to show what remained of Greek regional traditions songs and dances. Samiou has worked with many young musicians, and is widely recognised as being one of the leading influences on modern Greek music, as well as being in large part responsible for the survival of Greek traditional culture — not as a museum piece but as a living heritage. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.