Michalis Terlikkas

Michalis Terlikkas was born in 1955 in in Kapouti, Morphou, Cyprus. During the invasion of 1974, he was forced to leave. Terlikkas had an interst in music and singing from a young age, and became a student of the late Andreas Mappouras, who was a legendary Cypriot singer and poet. They recorded a few cassettes together, which included tsiattistá, traditional Cypriot couplets. Terlikkas also worked under Theodoulos Kallinikos, who was a collector and interpreter of traditional Cypriot music.