Known as “I Politissa”, she was born in Constantinople, probably around the turn of the 20th century. Like Marika Papagika, she was one of the first recorded-women singers of the Smyrnaiko style of rebetiko tragoudi. The earliest records of her are available in the E.M.I. archives in Hayes, Middlesex, England. They show that she made a recording of the well known song, “Yi’afto foumaro cocaini”, in Athens, in October of 1932.