![]() He went to Crete, where he became the "head of the Chania Music School" and founded his first orchestra. In 1950, he finished his studies and took his last two exams "with flying colours". During the Greek Civil War he was arrested, sent into exile on the island of Icaria and then deported to the island of Makronisos, where he was tortured and twice buried alive.ĭuring the periods when he was not obliged to hide, not exiled or jailed, he studied from 1943 to 1950 at the Athens Conservatoire under Filoktitis Economidis. He went to Athens in 1943, and became a member of a Reserve Unit of ELAS, and led a troop in the fight against the British and the Greek right in the Dekemvriana. In Patras and Pyrgos he took his first music lessons, and in Tripoli, Peloponnese, he gave his first concert at the age of seventeen. Theodorakis's fascination with music began in early childhood he taught himself to write his first songs without access to musical instruments. He was raised with Greek folk music and was influenced by Byzantine liturgy as a child he had already talked about becoming a composer. ![]() His father, a lawyer and a civil servant, was from the small village of Kato Galatas, in Crete and his mother, Aspasia Poulakis, was from an ethnically Greek family in Çeşme, in what is today Turkey. Mikis Theodorakis was born on the Greek island of Chios and spent his childhood years in different provincial Greek cities such as Mytilene, Cephallonia, Patras, Pyrgos, and Tripoli. He has consistently opposed oppressive regimes and was a key voice against the Greek junta 1967-1974, which imprisoned him. He continues to speak out in favor of left-liberal causes, Greek-Turkish-Cypriot relations, and against the War in Iraq. In 1990 he was elected to the parliament (as in 19), became a government minister under Constantine Mitsotakis, and fought against drugs and terrorism and for culture, education and better relations between Greece and Turkey. Politically, he identified with the left until the late 1980s in 1989 he ran as an independent candidate within the centre-right New Democracy party in order for the country to come out of the political crisis that had been created due to the numerous scandals of the government of Andreas Papandreou and helped to establish a large coalition between conservatives, socialists and leftists. He is viewed as Greece's best-known living composer. ![]() He scored for the films Zorba the Greek (1964), Z (1969), and Serpico (1973). Politically, he identified with the left until the late 1980s in 1989 he ran as an independent candidate within the centre-right Read Full Bio Michael "Mikis" Theodorakis (Greek: Μιχαήλ (Μίκης) Θεοδωράκης, pronounced born 29 July 1925) is a Greek songwriter of over 1000 songs and composer. Michael "Mikis" Theodorakis (Greek: Μιχαήλ (Μίκης) Θεοδωράκης, pronounced born 29 July 1925) is a Greek songwriter of over 1000 songs and composer. ![]()
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