Evangelis Papazoglou was born in Smyrna in 1895 was one of Rebetiko’s great composers and played several instruments. He was a man of strong principles and refused to submit any songs for publication after censorship was imposed by the Metaxas dictatorship in 1937. He gave up music after the Axis occupation of Greece in 1943, and became a junk collector. He died of TB in 1943 in Piraeus, one of several leading rebetika figures who failed to survive WWII.