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Antonis Diamantidis
Greek musician (–)
Musical artist
Antonis Diamantidis (Greek: Αντώνης Διαμαντίδης), also known as Antonis Dalgas (Greek: Αντώνης Νταλγκάς) was a Greek musician.
He was notable for his rebetiko songs. He was also a songwriter and best known as a singer.[1]
Life and career
Diamantidis was born in in the Arnavutköy suburb of Istanbul (then Constantinople) in the Ottoman Empire (present-day Turkey).[1] He took up music from an early age, learning to play both the guitar and the oud, and by he began to work professionally as a singer.
The singer was born in Costatinople in 1892 and from what I can deduce from his Greek Wikipedia page left it for the first time in 1920 to.
Because of the unusual and stirring "waves" in his voice, he was given the nickname Dalgas ("Νταλγκάς" which means "passion" in Greek, and "ripple" in Turkish), by which he would be known for the rest of his professional career.
In , he married Argyro Nikolaou in Istanbul, with whom he had one daughter, Anna. From to , he and his band entertained Greek immigrants to America on the ocean liner "King Alexandr