There are very few people in the world that are able to make a nation proud. Manos Hadjidakis, the composer of emotions, love and heard is the modern Socrates. If Socrates is the Philosopher who turned Philosophy to what is today, Manos Hadjidakis is the man who with his music made us all believe that we have lots to offer to the civilisation still.
His songs are full of humbleness, his melodies are full of heard, his tunes are emotions expressed in a unique universal manner.
He was born in Xanthi the 23rd of October 1925 and died in Athens at the age of 68. The news of his death found me in Switzerland reading a Greek newspaper in my room listening to Melina Mercouri, singing “Mesogeios” from an old cassette recorded from a radio station.
Then I thought that a great man has passed way, today I realise that great men like him never pass away.
En Mediteranee – Mesosogios
Singing George Moustaki and Giorgos Dalaras, Lyrics Dimitris Christodoulou,
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