Manolis Hiotis was born on March 21 1920, in Thessaloniki and died on March 21, 1970.
Once cruelly described as “A guitarist who caused the tetrachordo to become popular”, Hiotis was a virtuoso on many stringed instruments. He appears playing excellent trichordo bouzouki on several famous Rebetiko recordings, but moved to playing other styles, and is consequently mostly not thought of as a rebetiko player.