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KOSTAS KALAFATIS was born in Thessaloniki in Greece. Taught byzantine music by his father, he has been a singer since a young boy when he would sing in the Orthodox Church. This influence and his minor Asian origin, make up the essence of his voice.
At fourteen years of age he bought his first guitar and started, at the age of 16, playing and singing in bands. He is a rare case of an artist who has chosen to spend his career in making real music. For 35 years' he has shared his knowledge of the Greek Rembetiko, urban and folk song genres, working mostly in the country of Greece in Thessaloniki, Patras and the island of Skopelos where he has lived for the last 30 years'. Kalafatis expertly interprets Smyrneiko, Rembetiko and popular Greek song as he proves especially when he is singing. He plays guitar and also a variety of string instruments of the Eastern Mediterranean such as bouzouki, lute, oud, baglama etc.
He contributed as a composer on his latest CD entitled "Thessaloniki Patra Skopelos" which includes a remake of old songs and some contemporary compositions of his own and other composers.