Thanassis Skordalos

Thanassis Skordalos
Θανάσης Σκορδαλός
Background information
Born(1920-12-10)10 December 1920
OriginCrete, Greece
Died23 April 1998(1998-04-23) (aged 77)
OccupationsComposer, singer
InstrumentCretan lyra
Years active1940s – 1990s

Thanassis Skordalos (Greek: Θανάσης Σκορδαλός; 10 December 1920 – 23 April 1998) was a musician from Crete, noted for playing the lyra, the bowed string instrument of Crete and most popular surviving form of the medieval Byzantine lyra.

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