Kostas Mountakis

Kostas Mountakis
Background information
Also known asMountokostas
Born(1926-02-10)10 February 1926
Mylopotamos, Crete, Greece
Died31 January 1991(1991-01-31) (aged 64)
OccupationsComposer, singer

Kostas "Mountokostas" Mountakis (also Moundakis; Greek: Κώστας (Μουντόκωστας) Μουντάκης; 10 February 1926 – 31 January 1991) was a Greek musician who popularized the traditional music of the island of Crete, primarily with the Cretan lyra, the bowed string instrument of Crete and most popular surviving form of the medieval Byzantine lyra.

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