Artist
Vassilis Tsitsanis
Vassilis Tsitsanis appears 2 times in our Rebetiko list, placing as high as No. 2. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.
- Ranked entries
- 2
- Appears on
- Rebetiko
- Years
- 1948–1949
- Highest placing
- No. 2 in Rebetiko
- Updated
- 2026-08-30
Appears on
Synnefiasmeni Kyriaki
1948
Ranked No. 2 in Rebetiko
Begun in occupied Thessaloniki in 1943 and finished in Athens after the war. Greeks treat it as an unofficial anthem, which tells you what the occupation did to the song's subject.
Ftohologia
1949
Ranked No. 6 in Rebetiko
Tsitsanis moved the form off the hashish den and onto the general condition of being poor, which is how it survived the ban and became national music.