Giorgia Mitaki

Giorgia Mitaki was a singer. She was born in 1911 in Avlona in Attica, she enjoyed a singing career that lasted for thirty years. She came to Athens at age 18, and married in 1930. She is remembered mostly as a singer of popular folk songs, but she was just as accomplished with Smyrnaika, singing compositions and arrangements of Panagiotis Toundas, Spiros Peristeris and others . Her voice can be heard on “S’ena teke boukarane”, the first recording of Vassilis Tsitsanis in 1937.

She made two highly successful North American tours, one in the late 1950s, and one in the early 1960s. Due to ill health, she made her last visits to the recording studo in 1965. Giorgia Mitaki died back in her home village, Avlona, on 28 February, 1977.