Giorgos Alkaios and Friends
OPA
Греция
His outstanding success in combination with his low profile character, were the reasons he had so many proposals from record companies after his contract with B.M.G. expired. After 3 months of negotiating and talking, Dimitris Giermenitis and George Polichroniou directors of Sony Music, signed George Alkaios with their company. The first record with the new company, titled 'silent sounds', shoked the whole coyntry. His extreme photos along with his new look made the record gold in less than 24 hours. 4 new records were to come. All of them golden and 2 platinum.
In year 2003 after the expiration of his latest contract with Sony Music, which was right after his contract with B.M.G., George decided to sign with a greek music company rather than an international one. Alpha Records offered him the opportunity of music creation which made him to accept the collaboration. Not only his new contract but his new album as well, persisting of 12 new songs in a DVD package, made some real noise. The same record company, a year after, released a special edition of this album with a 2 hour DVD dedicated to his artistic presence(songs, video clips and amateur videos of his concerts).
Famous personalities from all fields (singers, actors, models, presenters, journalists) talk about him. George Alkaios after 15 years in the music world decides to change chapter in his music creation. He created a new music profile, carrying and transfering a different emotion through every new song. some thing he had always done despite of the music style.
George's reputation has spread out of Greece; he is very popular in Greek communities all over the world. He is one of the few Greek artists who hold the record: for the last ten years he is performing without interruption in Cyprus, Germany, Great Britain, Canada, Australia and the U.S.A.
George Alkaios is famous abroad as an ethnic singer, and so he has performed in great theatres and concert halls. House of Blues, Manhattan Center, Metro, Taj Mahal, Crown, Fox Studios, Vic Theater are some of the places in which he appeared. Recently he performed twice in Tirana's Concert Hall in Albania; he was also invited for concerts in Bulgaria and Romania. More then 300000 people have watched George perform live all these years.
George Alkaios is not only popular to the Greeks of diaspora, but he has also entered in the international charts. In year 2000 his song 'Simadi' was accepted in the music collection of France's Buddha Bar. He is the first Greek artist to be accepted in this album. A year after that, 'Sirmatoplegma' becomes an anthem for the Turkish team Galata Sarai, when it won the European Super Cup and the UEFA Cup.
His first platin LP abroad came from Sweden, when Antique performed his song 'Opa-opa'; and became famous all over Europe. One of the most important Greek singers, Despina Vandi, is performing the same song in Greece and abroad. His song 'S' agapao' has already been translated into English and is expected that it will be performed by a foreign artist. The same song is a hit in Eastern Europe by a famous Romanian artist although George has never given his permission for this production. His song 'Ki olo mou leipeis' will be used as musical trailer by the greatest broadcasting company of Bulgaria.
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