Antonis dalgas biography sample

Greek musician (1892–1945)

Musical artist

Antonis Diamantidis (Greek: Αντώνης Διαμαντίδης), also known as Antonis Dalgas (Greek: Αντώνης Νταλγκάς) was a Greek musician.

He was notable for his rebetiko songs. He was also a songwriter and best known as a singer.^[1]

Life and career

Diamantidis was born in 1892 in the Arnavutköy suburb of Istanbul (then Constantinople) in the Ottoman Empire (present-day Turkey).^[1] He took up music from an early age, learning to play both the guitar and the oud, and by 1910 he began to work professionally as a singer.

Antonis dalgas biography sample

Because of the unusual and stirring "waves" in his voice, he was given the nickname Dalgas ("Νταλγκάς" which means "passion" in Greek, and "ripple" in Turkish), by which he would be known for the rest of his professional career.

In 1919, he married Argyro Nikolaou in Istanbul, with whom he had one daughter, Anna. From 1920 to 1922, he and his band entertained Greek immigrants to America on