Vassilis Tsitsanis was born in 1915 in Trikala, Thessaly, Kingdom of Greece. He
began playing instruments at a young age, learning the violin, mandola, and
mandolin, and made his first recording in 1937 after moving to Athens in 1936 to
study law. Tsitsanis later relocated to Thessaloniki in 1938, where he completed
his military service and stayed during the German occupation, writing many of
his best songs. He recorded about 100 of his own compositions by 1941. After
returning to Athens in 1946, he began recording compositions that made singers
such as Sotiria Bellou and Marika ...