Makis Matsas spoke about the hectic relationship he and Stelios Kazantzidis spoke tonight (31.03.2025) on the “Prime Time” camera, the documentary series that SKAI is screened. “Maybe, I don’t know, if there could be the folk rebetiko song without my father,” Makis Matsas also says in this tribute to “Minos Matsas and Son”, which started in 1926 by Minos Matsas.
“THE Stelios Kazantzidis He was the greatest singer in Greece, “he said Makis Matsasbrowsing the album of his life, “A century of Minos Matsas and Son”telling Mars Portosalte stories “Behind Marquis”.
«Kazantzidis, however, was peculiar. It was not bad, but it was peculiar. It is no coincidence that she married Marinella and in two years they split“, Makis Matsas hastened to complete.
For Marinella states: ‘Marinella, I took her little one, then left because she didn’t want to live with Kazantzidis, went to Phillips and then came back».
THE Makis Matsas grabbed the thread from the beginning of everything – the involvement of his visionary father, Minuswith the unrighteous Greek discography of the mid -1920s.
He turned to conversion of a bankrupt company into a giant of the Greek pentagram, revealed how the innate charisma in finding talents and his business demonic led to her threshold “Minos Matsas and Son” Great artists and told well -known and unknown stories from great names in Greek music:
Markos Vamvakaris, Vassilis Tsitsanis, Manos Hadjidakis, Mikis Theodorakis, Thanos Mikroutsikos, Stratos Dionysiou, Stelios Kazantzidis, Dimitris Mitropanos, Tolis Voskopoulos, Giorgos Dalas.
At one point in his interview he chose to talk about episodic cooperation with Stelios Kazantzidissaying that it was peculiar as a human being.
“Kazantzidis was a peculiar man. It wasn’t bad. It is no coincidence that they were married to Marinella and in two years broke up. Marinella left because she didn’t want to live with Kazantzidis and changed a company. Kazantzidis was a company in the company. Kazantzidis used to say a bunch of things (ed for the record labels), “he said Makis Matsas.
In the show he spoke and Christos Nikolopoulos For the record of the record label with the great late singer:
“THE Kazantzidis signed a contract with the Minos knowing what he signs. Everything else was created because of the contribution of a few journalists who developed the issue and most likely falsified it. “
Minos Matsas and son started in 1926 by Minoa.
“My father, finishing his studies, wrote lyrics. He was then hired at the first record label that had been founded in Greece Odeon Parlophone. At first he was an accountant manager, but then his genius talent to smell the artists, led him to find him Cotton and then Tsitsani, Papaioannou, Kaldara And all the others. And so he created the rebetiko folk song, “Makis Matsas told.