George Dalaras Tickets

Short Biography
George Dalaras, Greece's most influential artist, has collaborated with the likes of Sting, Bruce Springsteen, Youssou'n'Dour, Paco de Lucia, Peter Gabriel and Goran Bregovic. His extraordinary passion and skill have had an undying influence on world music. He is Greece's most important musical ambassador.
With over 75 personal albums and 55 other collaborative recordings, he has achieved multi gold & platinum record sales, with totals exceeding 14 million copies. Dalaras will bring one of the highest calibre musical experiences we have had in a long time.
Currently performing his world 'Encore Tour' to sell-out audiences across Europe, and for the very first time in Istanbu...

Short Biography
George Dalaras, Greece's most influential artist, has collaborated with the likes of Sting, Bruce Springsteen, Youssou'n'Dour, Paco de Lucia, Peter Gabriel and Goran Bregovic. His extraordinary passion and skill have had an undying influence on world music. He is Greece's most important musical ambassador.
With over 75 personal albums and 55 other collaborative recordings, he has achieved multi gold & platinum record sales, with totals exceeding 14 million copies. Dalaras will bring one of the highest calibre musical experiences we have had in a long time.
Currently performing his world 'Encore Tour' to sell-out audiences across Europe, and for the very first time in Istanbul, he will reach Australia this October. He will perform a repertoire spanning his 40-year career. Dalaras and his band will bring the essence of Greece to our shores.
Along with contemporary artists Melina Aslanidou and Michalis Tzouganakis, he is sure to inspire and excite audiences across the country.

In-depth Biography
Dubbed "the Greek Bruce Springsteen," laiki superstar Yiorgas (George) Dalaras ranks among the biggest pop music phenomenons to hit the Mediterranean in decades. Born in Nea Kokkinia, Piraeus, in 1950, he was the son of rembetika performer Loukas Ntaralas, and made his recorded debut on his father's 1965 recording of "Wry Thorn." By the age of 17, Dalaras was already working as a professional singer, and soon cut his first solo record, "Expectation." In 1968, he issued his debut LP, The Station, a major hit which became the first of well over 40 albums he released during his career in a variety of styles ranging from dhimotka folk songs to the music of Mikis Theodorakis and Giannis Markopoulos; he even learned rudimentary Spanish to cut a number of Latin American and flamenco standards in collaboration with guitarist Al Di Meola. In 1983, Dalaras performed two sold-out shows at Athens' Olympic Stadium before crowds in excess of 80,000 people nightly. While remaining a star primarily in his native land, his reputation did extend to the global music community, and he played many of the world's most legendary venues, including Paris' Olympia Theatre and New York City's Radio City Music Hall. A career retrospective, The Very Best of George Dalaras, appeared in 2000. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi