Nikos expressed his concerns regarding 'laika' song situation

At 13th of April, on Wednesday, Nikos Economopoulos gave his interview to the Cosmoradio 95.1 broadcaster Tasos Rizopoulos


Nikos was speaking in his best sincere way.




As usual, the most popular Greek singer answered with joke to the private life question by saying that if some girls want to know him in person, they may come and meet him. (Tasos straightaway invited all the girls to come to the bar Mast, this popular place in Thessaloniki where meeting was organized, to come to know Nikos better.)


But when the topic changed a direction and Tasos asked him some questions regarding the situation with the Greek song, Nikos became serious and expressed his opinion on this subject.

Nikos Economopoulos believes that there are many talented authors and singers working in the contemporary Greek song, but there is a lot of a mediocrity as well there and that “radio made its contribution to this mistaken policy”.

Nikos sees the problem, that good “laika “singers with the songs, written by talented authors can not approach the radio, they don’t have air play.



Tasos wanted Nikos to clarify, which songs and singers are not on the radio. Nikos answered, that “The medium from which you can listen and learn some songs, is the radio. Insofar as the radio does not play their music, I can’t know it either”.

On the question of the radio broadcaster, why does Nikos have complains being

a popular “laika” singer and having his songs permanently on air,

Nikos answered, that he speaks not for himself: “I did not say that I have complains. I speak generally about the “laika’ song, I say, that instead of going ahead, it goes one and two, and five steps back.”





Nikos said to Tasos as a the broadcaster of Cosmoradio 95.1 that he wishes him more often to show “laika” songs , that his radio is able to do so and they can do so!





Regarding his own plans for his life, Nikos said, that he would like to have a real, good family, that he loves children and he is going to have a family and a wife for ever. That he wants to work and to make something valuable in what he is doing.



Many thanks to Renataki for providing us with the text of the interview in Greek!!!!