There is very little documented information on this outstanding exponent of the Oud. Tomboulis was born to Armenian parents in Constantinople, circa 1891. Like many of Roza’s associates, he came to Greece as a refugee in September 1922 after being expelled from Asia Minor. Tomboulis was Greece’s leading Oud player and he can be heard performing magic on hundreds of sides. He became a close associate of Roza’s and she believed him to be the best Oud player and a very good singer too. Apart from performing alongside her throughout the 1930s at Taigetos taverna, he travelled extensively with Roza in the Balkans and Near East before World War II; and again to Constantinople in the 1950s where they cut approximately 40 sides. He died in Athens circa 1965.