Yiorgos Batis
Musical artist
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Yiorgos Batis (also Giorgos Batis; Greek: Γιώργος Μπάτης; born Giorgos Tsoros (Γιώργος Τσώρος); 1885 – 10 March 1967) was one of the first rebetes influential to rebetiko music.
1885
Yiorgos Batis Γιώργος Μπάτης | |
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Yiorgos Batis in the 1930s | |
| Background information | |
| Also known as | Yiorgos Ampatis (Γιώργος Αμπάτης) |
| Born | Yiorgos Tsoros (Γιώργος Τσώρος) 1885 Methana, Greece |
| Died | 10 March 1967 (aged 81–82) Piraeus, Greece |
| Genres | Rebetiko |
| Occupations | Musician, composer, songwriter |
| Instruments | Baglamas, bouzouki |
Life and career
He was born in Methana in 1885 and moved to Piraeus when he was very young.[1]
He served in the Greek army from 1912 to 1918. In the mid-1920s, he opened a music school called "Carmen". He opened a café named "Georges Baté" in 1931 and formed one of the most important scenes of rebetiko music. He continued to work as a quack salesman, improvising treatments for toothache and other minor ailments. He kept a collection of many instruments and also used to name them. In 1933, Yiorgos Batis did his first sound-recording with bouzouki in Greece. In the 1930s, he dedicated himself solely to music and collaborated closely with Anestis Delias, Markos Vamvakaris, and Stratos Pagioumtzis in a rebetiko band (Greek: Η τετράς η ξακουστή του Πειραιώς, romanized: I Tetras i Xakousti tou Peiraios, lit. 'the Famous Quartet of Piraeus').[1][2]