Apostolos Nikolaidis

"It it widely acknowledged in Greece by serious music journalists and researchers of the rebetiko that Apostolos Nikolaidis (Απόστολος Νικολαΐδης) (1938-1999) was the artist who first brought back to light the forgotten and outlawed rebetika and sparked new interest in this genre. Specifically, Nikolaidis was the first singer to re-interpret the illegal rebetika songs in their original lyrics and the first artist to pay homage to the overlooked rebetika composers of the 20s and 30s.