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Giorgos Zampetas (Greek: Γιώργος Ζαμπέτας, sometimes romanized as George Zambetas) was a well known bouzouki musician. He was born on January 25, 1925 in Athens but his origins are from Kythnos. He died on March 10, 1992 in Athens.

Giorgos Zampetas, Greek music composer, singer and one of the greatest bouzouki artists of all time was born in Metaksourgio of Athens, on the 25th of January 1925. His parents were Mihalis Zampetas, a barber and Marika Moraiti, niece of a well known baritone of those years.

From a very young age, Zampetas showed a great interest in music: as he was helping his father in his barber shop, he secretly played his first melodies on a bouzouki. Anything that was producing sound seemed exciting to him and helped him in his compositions, as he said in his biography not long before he died. In 1932, as a 7 year old first grader, he won his first prize, playing his first song in a school competition.

A non-exhaustive list of some of Zampetas' songs includes: To koutouki (1960, Papayannopoulou), Den ehei dromo na diavo (1963, Christodoulou), Ki an tha diaveis ton ourano (1964, Christodoulou), Porta klisti ta hili sou (1964, Christodoulou), Ta Dilina (1965, Christodoulou), Ximeromata (1965, Christodoulou), Me to voria (1965, Christodoulou), Mesanihta pou tha se bro (1965, Christodoulou), Siko horepse sirtaki (1965, Sakelarios), Hamogelo (1965, Sakelarios), To fantaraki (1965, Ferris), H Kyriaki (1965, Sakelarios), Thessaloniki (1965, Iliopoulos), Pare to dromo ton palio (1966, Christodoulou), Dimitri mou Dimitri mou (1966, Sakelarios), Stalia stalia (1967, Jeffronis), Poios ine aftos (1968, Pythagoras), Erhome erxome (1968, Pythagoras), Ti na ftei (1969, Christodoulou), Agonia (1970, Vasiliadis).
 
George Mouflouzelis (Γιώργος Μουφλουζέλης; Mitiline, 1912 - 4 August 1991), was a Greek singer of rebetiko. He composed significant songs, e.g., ``O Psaras mesa sti hora", ``Ego den eho bgali to sxolio" (later sung by George Dalaras), ``Kaike mia sinikia", etc. His LP ``50 Hronia Rebetiko Tragoudi" was a major financial success and is the first platinum LP in the history of Greek discography. He died in the Galatsi neighborhood of Athens.
 
Giannis Tatasopoulos (Greek: Γιάννης Τατασόπουλος) (born 7 January 1928, in Kifissia, Greece) was a Greek musician and renowned bouzouki master, soloist and composer who achieved a number one hit in the national Greek charts in the 1950s and appeared a number of times on Greek national television. In the mid 1950s many of the top bouzouki soloists, including Giannis Tatasopoulos, emigrated to the United States. Giannis Tatasopoulos relocated to the United States in 1955 and decided to stay there in 1958. His son Nikos Tatasopoulos, who was born in the United States, is also a bouzouki master, and soloist.