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Yiorgos (or Giorgos) Batis (Greek: Γιώργος Μπάτης, also Giorgos Batis) (1885 in Methana - March 10, 1967) was one of the first and infulential in rebetiko music and was known in Piraeus. His real name was Yiorgos Tsoros although he was known as Yiorgos Ampatis. He had a huge love in music and important like organs (bouzouki, baglamas, etc.)
Biography Batis was born in Methana in 1885, he moved to Piraeus when he was still small. In the mid-1920s, he opened a music school called "Carmen". He opened a cafe named "Georges Baté" in 1931 and formed one of the "likna" in rebetiko music. He continued to work as a salesman improvising drugs for painful teeth and became a dentist and a small salesman. In 1933, Yiorgos Batis did his first sound writing in bouzouki in Greece. In the 1930s, he covered professionally in music and collaborated narrowly, between others, with Markos Vamvakaris in the rebetiko compani with the name I Tetras i Xakousti tou Peiraios (Η τετράς η ξακουστή του Πειραιώς). However, it did not light up the charts. He died on March 10, 1967.
Links Biography on Yiorgos Batis (in Greek) All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License
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