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Greek singer

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Type
Person
Country
GR
Active from
1914
Active to
1969-06-17

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Rita Abatzi (also spelled Abadzi; Greek: Ρίτα Αμπατζή) (1914 – 17 June 1969) was a Greek rebetiko musician who began her career in the first part of the 1930s. She was born in Smyrna (now Izmir), Turkey. Some sources have given her year of birth as 1903. A versatile singer of rebetiko, Smyrneika and other music, she was a popular performer on gramophone records in the 1930s. During that decade, the only female singer of rebetiko who rivalled her in popularity, and in the number of her recordings

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
female
Citizenship
Ottoman Empire
Place of birth
İzmir
Place of death
Egaleo
Occupation
singer
Languages spoken
Modern Greek
Instrument
voice
Image
Rita Abatzi.jpg
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date of birth
1914-01-01
date of death
1969-06-17
name in native language
Ρίτα Αμπατζή
birth name
Ειρήνη Αραμπατζή
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