Kostas Hatzis

Kostas Hatzis (Greek: Κώστας Χατζής) (born August 13, 1936) is a Greek singer-songwriter and musician of Gypsy origin.

Kostas Hatzis
Κώστας Χατζής
Background information
Birth nameKostas Hatzis
Born (1936-08-13) August 13, 1936
Livadeia, Boeotia, Greece
GenresFolk, Greek New Wave, Éntekhno
Occupation(s)Musician, singer, songwriter
Years active1961–present

Kostas Hatzis was born in Livadeia, a city in central Greece to a Hellenized-Gypsy family. He is considered one of the most significant composers and a pioneer in the Greek social song, popularising the "voice-guitar" style, making ballads with social messages heard.[1]

His grandfather was a great popular clarinetist and dulcimer player. It did not take Kostas Hatzis long to follow in his grandfather's footsteps. When he was sixteen years old, his father took him to weddings and christenings and any other event in which folk music was requested. After a five-year musical tour of the countryside, he moved to Athens in 1957, started recording in 1961, and became popular in the mid-1960s with the Greek New Wave movement in Greek music.[1]

His talent was quickly discovered by the great composers of that time (such as Mikis Theodorakis, Manos Hadjidakis, Mimis Plessas, Stavros Xarchakos, Yannis Markopoulos among many others), with whom he has collaborated, performing their songs, adding to them his personal style and particular sensibility.

At the end of that decade, Kostas Hatzis, in one of his tours, visited United States for concerts to the expatriate Greeks. It is worth noting that his fame as a singer for peace had reached the White House when the then US President, Jimmy Carter invited him to meet him and congratulate him. He is one of the only Greek artists who has been invited and congratulated for their morality and their work by a U.S. President.[2]

Kostas Hatzis has sung about love as well as social issues in duets with well-known singers, such as Marinella. Kostas Hatzis married a German woman and together they have a son, Alexandros Hatzis, who is also a singer.[1]

Discography
  • 1964: Yannis Markopoulos – To Koritsi Me To Kordelaki (Collaboration)
  • 1966: O Kostas Hatzis tTagouda Miki Theodoraki
  • 1966: O Kostas Hatzis Pezi Ke Tragouda Mazi Sas
  • 1966: O Kostas Hatzis Tragouda Theodoraki, Hadjidaki, Markopoulo
  • 1968: Kostas Hatzis – Anagennisis Alonnisos
  • 1969: Kostas Hatzis – Stis Gitonies Tou Kosmou
  • 1970: O Kostas Hatzis Tragouda Kosta Hatzi
  • 1971: Ena Karavi Gemato Tragoudia (Collaboration)
  • 1972: Mia vradia Stou Kosta Hatzi
  • 1972: Kostas Hatzis – Petra Ke Fos
  • 1973: Kostas Hatzis – Ouai
  • 1975: Kostas Hatzis – Dekatria Tragoudia
  • 1975: Kostas Hatzis – O Yios Tis Anixis
  • 1976: Kostas Hatzis – Anthropina Systimata
  • 1976: Marinella & Kostas Hatzis - Recital
  • 1977: Elpida – Dakis Stou Kosta Hatzi
  • 1979: 18 Chronia Kostas Hatzis – Thymithite Mazi Mou (Compilation)
  • 1980: Kostas Hatzis – Portraito (Compilation)
  • 1980: Marinella & Kostas Hatzis - To Tam-Tam
  • 1982: Kostas Hatzis – Ntaoulierika
  • 1983: Kostas Hatzis – Ta Stigmata Tou Kerou
  • 1984: O Kostas Hatzis Zontana Ston Orfea
  • 1985: Marinella – I Agapi Mas (Collaboration)
  • 1987: Marinella & Kostas Hatzis - Synantisi
  • 1989: Kostas Hatzis – '89
  • 1990: Kostas Hatzis – Se 4/4
  • 1990: Kostas Hatzis – Mousiki Ierosylia
  • 1990: Kostas Hatzis – Rom Agapi Mou
  • 1991: I Alexiou Tragoudaei Hatzi
  • 1991: Kostas Hatzis – Ora Miden (4 Tragoudia Gia Tin Eirini)
  • 1994: O Alexandros Tragouda Kosta Hatzi
  • 1995: 30 Chronia Kostas Hatzis Vol. I & II
  • 1995: Kostas Hatzis – Tragoudia Gia Filous
  • 1995: Kostas Hatzis – Ta Prota mou Tragoudia
  • 1996: Kostas Hatzis – Ikones Tou Simera
  • 1996: Kostas Hatzis – Mia Vradia Ston Topo Pou Gennithika
  • 1997: Marinella & Kostas Hatzis – Resital Gia Dio (Compilation)
  • 1998: Kostas Hatzis – Ta Vradia Pou Onirevonte I Tsiggani
  • 2000: Kostas Hatzis – Choris Esena
  • 2000: Kostas Hatzis – Stigmes Monaxias
  • 2002: Mimis Plessas – Iobilaion (Collaboration)
  • 2004: Antonis Remos – Live (Collaboration)
  • 2005: Kostas Hatzis – Live 1965 – 1979 (Compilation)
  • 2007: Kostas Hatzis – Megales Epitihies (Compilation)
  • 2007: 45 Chronia Kostas Hatzis – Anthologia 1961 – 2006 (Compilation)
  • 2008: Kostas Hatzis
  • 2009: Kostas Hatzis & Julie Massino & Alexandros Hatzis – Antitheseis

References
  1. e-magazine Music Heaven, Biography; Kostas Hatzis (in Greek), June 1, 2008
  2. Μy Greek Fm, Biography; Kostas Hatzis (in Greek)
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