Michalis Genitsaris (15 June 1917 - 11 May 2005) was born in Piraeus, and learned to play the bouzouki at an early age, but gave up playing professionally and became a fruit merchant. He resumed his professional playing again in the late 1970’s. He wrote several rebetiko classics, including “Ego Mangas Fainomouna” (It showed I was a mangas), but cut only one side pre-WWII.