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710:). In his second novel, although most of his writing describes real life events, locations and names of real persons, the author presents them as the building blocks of a "fiction" storyline. His third novel was presented to the public on 23 October 2010. It is called "13+1 Γιατί;" (Γιατί=why in Greek) completes a trilogy in which rebetiko holds a central role.
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Lefteris to represent himself as the leading actor. All three novels are written in simple everyday spoken Greek. He usually places verses inside the text, often for reasons of historic significance to the context he describes. All his novels expose events with actual historic data. He often offers his own insights in the evolution of
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The lyrics playfully deal with immortality, whereby the author admits that nothing is "immortal" and begs
Almighty God to eliminate Death for good, after the former had a few drinks first. The lyrics are used in a passage in his second book, when the author dies and struggles to get into Paradise,
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Kazantzidis and Xrysanthos (an authentic Pontos singer), in the late
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Platinum record awards and occasionally he has been publicly recognized for his contribution to the Greek Popular Music by the Prefecture of Evros and Municipalities of
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395:, "One matter counts") that he wrote upon a Nikolopoulos music score during the mid-80s. The song was originally performed by Haris Alexiou and later, following accrued popularity, by quite a few other performers, including
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Some woman somewhere, sometime was building castles for me
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496:Τώρα μες τα όνειρά μου ψάχνω τη μορφή της
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1021:Η ζωη μου τραγούδι το τραγούδι ζωη
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