The great folk singer Michalis Menidiatis has passed away after suffering from a terminal illness.

The singer, due to the deterioration of his health, was hospitalized recently and finally lost the battle for his life.

His young son wrote on twitter “Have a good trip Father”!

The young Kalogranis as his real name was, was born and raised in Menidi.

His father worked as a security guard in the Vegetable Market.

From a small child he was moved by the sound of the bouzouki and, after Liberation he started to “carves” the coveted but then maligned instrument.

He went on stage for the first time- despite his father's strong objections- the 1953, in “Cool” of Dimitris Gikas in Menidi , where Michalis Daskalakis appeared, Takis Binis, George Lavkas and Gerasimos Klouvatos.

It entered the discography on 1957 with the “I will build a hut” of Ger. Kuvatou.

It was established and recognized by the compositions of Ap. Caldera, “do not wait any more”, “Contempt with, sweetheart”, “Little by little you will get used to me”, “Little by little” etc.

His collaboration with Akis Panos bore brilliant fruit.

“I saw your eyes crying, my dear”, “Illegal love” etc.

In the early 1960s, together with his brothers, he opened his own shop in Treis Gefyres.

Then they launch the “Tamba-Tumba” in Tzitzifies, from the eponymous sux of Karabessini.

The 1965 they take it “Global” on the beach and rename it to “Imagination”

Source : radar.gr

The answer given by the former prime minister is harsh, with a statement issued by his office, to the newspaper “Democracy” categorically denying the publication which spoke of a luxurious vacation of him and his wife in a luxury hotel in Crete, in fact according to which, George Papandreou was paying 1.020 euros per night.

According to the announcement, the Papandreou couple is indeed staying in a hotel in Chania “but the price they pay is infinitely less than that reported in the publications”.

In fact, as stated in the announcement, the former prime minister, “he asked to pay the relevant price despite the initial proposal from the hotel management to accommodate him”.

Subsequently, the office of the former prime minister directly attacks the Dimokratia newspaper saying that they had no intention of dealing with publications of the newspaper in question again as they had done with the “downcast” as the publication of August 5 characterizes it but “this time though, the playback line of the alleged news item matters, without crossing, without even seeking to know the truth, which clearly testifies to those willing to contribute for their own known reasons to the mud against George Papandreou”.

In the framework of the answer, the officials of the office take the opportunity to refer to the overall work of the former Prime Minister from their own point of view.

“But we would like to take this opportunity, to inform any interested party that, we are fully aware of the reasons why the so-called servants of truth and justice are cut off.

We Greeks managed to keep Greece standing and in the euro for two years, when the previous ND government had deserted, when everyone abroad had finished us and when Greece normally, every Greek, he would have experienced the national tragedy of violent bankruptcy since his May 2010.

And indeed, we made it in the worst possible conditions.

With the primary deficit at 25 and not in 4-5 billion euros, which we managed to be today, with political conflict in Greece over the major and necessary reforms, which was primarily cultivated by those who today represent the honorees, without government cooperation, without Hollande, without Modi in the EU. without an aggressively active ECB in bond markets, without understanding that the problem is not just Greece but the weaknesses of the Eurozone.

Is, Well, the fears of the initiators and authors of these smears are understandable, which far exceed those of the confirmation of George Papandreou's choices, that every day they see that reality itself emerges” they say in conclusion.

Source : radar.gr