Kostas Hatzis

Who is Kostas Hatzis?

Kostas Hatzis is a Romani singer-songwriter and musician.

Kostas Hatzis born in Livadeia, a city in central Greece. He is one of the most significant composers in the Greek social song. He is the one who has substantially imposed the "voice-guitar" style, and for the first time he made ballads with social messages heard.

His grandfather was a great popular clarinettist, and his father also played very well the dulcimer. Therefore, it didn't take Kostas Hatzis long to follow his family's steps. When he was sixteen years old, his father used to take him with him and he sang in weddings and christenings and in any other event, in which demotic, mainly, music was necessary. After a five-year itinerancy in the country, he moved to Athens in 1957, and started recording in 1961, while he became popular until the mid-1960s with the Greek New Wave movement in Greek music.

His talent is quickly discovered by the great composers of that time, with whom he has cooperated, and he has performed their songs in his own particular way, adding strongly his personal style and particular sensibility, which add melody and meaning in the lyrics of the songs.