Popular singer and songsmith Antonis Vardis passed away early on Tuesday morning, at the age of 66, after a battle with cancer.
Vardis was born in Moschato in 1948 and at the age of 6 he met some of Greece’s greats – Tsitsanis, Papaioannou, Zampetas and Rena Dalia – at the “Falirikon” club, where he first performed on stage.
At the age of 17, in 1965, he formed the “Vickings” band with friends and works alongside many composers and musicians in Plaka music halls, such as Manos Loizos, Giorgos Dalaras, Yannis Parios, Nikos Xylouris and more. In 1973 he came second in a music competition with a song which he composed and Dalaras performed.
Throughout his career Vardis worked with some of the most important Greek composers and musicians, such as Stelios Kazantzidis, Yannis Poulopoulos, Vasilis Papakonstantinou, Anna Vissi, Lavrentis Macheritsas, Antonis Remos and Sakis Rouvas, as well as his son Yannis Vardis.
