Tolis Voskopoulos -- You are my suffering

 There's an awful lot of Tolis Voskopoulos out there on YouTube.  You can find young Voskopoulos, old Voskopoulos, super-poppy Voskopoulos, proto-emo Voskopoulos...  According to his obituary in the Greek Reporter he was by far the most commercially successful Greek musician in the history of Greek Music.  

Here we see super-young Voskopoulos with his band of teenagers (actually I don't know that; they could be just over 20) and boy do they look cool.  One of my great regrets was that, as a youngster, I was never in a band of that quality, and it is an awesome band.  The drummer is almost a hipster, the guitarist in the light jacket combines nerdiness and above-it-all-ness, the harmony singer combines a great doo with wise eyes, and Voskopoulos...  Well, he shows that he knows that he has that special "it", and that a future of fame, acclaim, and fortune awaits.  And, as for the two young women in the audience who vie for his attention, I sure hope they were able to quit smoking at a young age.

And the music?  At this blog, I am not paid to be objective, so please forgive my taste.  I'll put it this way.  Technically it is super-competent, and for a Voskopoulos song, it is not at all bad.  I guess I'm just more of a rebetika person than a laika person.   I hope that doesn't get me turned away when I show up at the Athens airport one day. Anyways, who can argue with commercial success...