Anestis Delias
Anestis Delias ( Greek Ανέστης Δελιάς , stage name Artemis (Αρτέμης); * 1912 in Smyrna ; † July 31, 1944 in Athens ) was a Greek bouzouki player and member of the well-known Rembetiko quartet "I Tetras i Xakousti tou Peiraios Πειραιώς).
His father was a well-known santuri player in Smyrna and also ran a shoemaker's shop. Anestis had two younger sisters. After the Greco-Turkish War , the family came to Athens in 1922. Anestis was a very talented musician. His father taught him to play the guitar. At the beginning of the 1930s he changed instruments and began to play bouzouki and baglamas. Together with Markos Vamvakaris , Giorgos Batis and Stratos Pagioumtzis , he founded the Rembetiko Kompania "I Tetras i Xakousti tou Peiraios" (Η τετράς η ξακουστή του Πειραιώς) in 1934. This quartet influenced the following generations of musicians and composers. In Vourlo in 1937 he met the heroin addict prostitute Katerina. During the Metaxas dictatorship , he refused to record censored versions of his songs. He was banished to the Cycladic island of Ios for drug addiction , where he met Michalis Jenitsaris . Back in Athens, his drug use increased up to the daily dose of heroin, so that he could neither work nor play music. On the morning of July 31, 1944, he was found dead on the street.
He is the only known rebetiko musician who died of drug use.
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- Rembetika - Manges Passion Drugs Jail Desease Death / Songs of the Greek Underground 1925-1947 TRIKONT US-0293
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| SURNAME | Delias, Anestis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek singer and bouzouki performer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Smyrna , Greece |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 31, 1944 |
| Place of death | Athens |