Giorgos Mazonakis has built a long career for himself by keeping club-goers
dancing to modern laika, pop and dance music.
Mazonakis was born in March 1972 in Nikaia, one of the suburbs of Athens. He
grew up listening to Greek folk music from the likes of Stratos Dionysios,
Yiannis Parios, Marinella and Haris Alexiou, with a little bit of rock mixed in.
At 15-years-old, Mazonakis decided he wanted to pursue a career in music and
began singing in the nightclubs of Athens and it was in one of those venues,
Patras, that he was picked up by Universal (then PolyGram). Mazonakis b...