The music returns

This week the only music on the scene are psalms and hymns, but as soon as May makes an appearance it seems that many Greek artists are getting ready to make up for lost time.

On Monday things will truly pick up again in Nicosia when Cypriot singer Alexia Vassiliou – better known just as Alexia – will be performing at Red Music Stage at 8.30pm.

Alexia is much more than a singer who shot to fame in the 80’s in the Greek pop charts and by representing Cyprus at the Eurovision song contest in 1987 with the song Aspro Mavro (White and Black), she is also a composer and lyricist.

She has had a series of gold and platinum records, including one in Scandinavia, and a top 100 hit in the US, while she was still a student at the Berklee College of Music in Boston.

Her first album, Alexia, started a new wave of pop music in Greece and Cyprus, and sold over 500,000 copies, making it the most successful debut album by a Greek artist.

Also in Dhali, the Greek singer Giorgos Tsalikis will be performing at 7pm and then again at 11pm at Opa Opa Club in Limassol, when he will be joined by the group Knock Out.

Tsalikis was a medical student who found that the operating table just wasn’t for him, and he was more drawn to the stage. So he started his music career in 2001 and has been making people move to his music ever since.

Alexia
Performance by the Greek singer. May 2. Red Music Stage, Nicosia. 8.30pm. Tel: 99-059257

Giorgos Tsalikis
Performance by the Greek singer. May 2. Dhali Lyceum, 1 Evagelou Floraki Street, Dhali, Nicosia. 7pm. €10. Tel: 70-000408

Giorgos Tsalikis and Knock Out
Performance by the Greek singer and band. May 2. Opa Opa Club, 86b Gladstonos Street, Limassol. 11pm. €10. Tel: 95-560056

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