Papadimitriou Alexis – Biography

Papadimitriou Alexis
Papadimitriou Alexis

Born in 1944, a songwriter of modern light music, with many “platinum” and “gold” discs to his credit. He is a son of tobacco merchant and came into contact with music since the age of 5 years, but actually started working with music in 1980. He wrote the first songs (in English) with a guitar and the first song was titled «Pretty girl dressed in blue». Later he did his first band, “Atomic”.

When he started recording, he had some success with singer Tony Pinelli. Later had great success and collaborations with leading singers Parios, Marinella, Manto etc and also in theatre with A. Vouyiouklaki in “My Fair Lady”,  N. Mercouri, Zoi Laskari, G. Kimoulis, etc.

In 1988, the album “Faithful” (with Pario and Marinella became a “platinum” of 110.000 copies and the 1993 the “Blame love – Turn off lights, Close the eyes” (with Angela Dimitriou) became also “platinum” with over 60,000 copies.

After 27 years of service and 56 LP albums with songs (individual & participants) was released in 1996 the first orchestral album titled “Horizons”.