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Giorgos Batis
Sign in to saveAlso known as Giorgos Mpatis, Giorgos Mpates, Giorgos Bates, Yiorgos Batis
Greek singer (1885–1967)
Film & TV
Known for
- True Love1932
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Jamaica
- Active from
- 1885
- Active to
- 1967
Discography
- Γιώργος Μπάτης1995
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,290
- Total plays
- 5,723
Tags
AllGreekmusique-grecquegreecepalia ellinika tragoudia
Giorgos (George) Batis (or Abatis) was a Greek composer and lyricist of rebetiko music. His real name was Giorgos Tsoros and was born at Methana in 1885 or 1886. At the age of 8 his parents moved to Piraeus. In 1931 he opened a café at the Lemonadika of Karaiskaki (Tzelepi Coast) (Λεμονάδικα του Καραϊσκάκη - Ακτή Τζελέπη), which he named Georges Baté (Ζώρζ Μπατέ) which turned out to serve a a school for rebetiko music. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Giorgos+Batis">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Greece
- Place of birth
- Methana
- Place of death
- Piraeus
- Occupation
- composer
- Languages spoken
- Modern Greek
- Native language
- Greek
- Genre
- Rebetiko
- Instrument
- voice
- Image
- George Batis.JPG
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- date of death
- 1967-03-10
- date of birth
- 1885-01-01
- name in native language
- Γιώργος Μπάτης
Sources (1)
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