Giovan Tsaous

Giovan Tsaous (Γιοβάν Τσαούς) (1893 - 1942) of Rebetika tragoudia was a Greek type-setter. Its real name was Giannis Eïtziridis or Etseridis (Γιάννης Εϊτζιρίδης or Ετσειρίδης). It was a musician except par which however left only few works.

Biography

Giovan (Ioannis) Eïtziridis was born into 1893 from a family originating in the Pont Euxin. It served in the Othoman army as a " Tsaous" (=" sergent" in Turkish). In Turkey he was a considered musician, one says even him that he played in the course of the Sultan Mehmed V. After the end without glory of the war opposing Greece to Turkey (1922) and exchanges it populations, Tsaous came in Greece and settled with the Pirée, where he worked as dressmaker. In Greece it forever exerted the trade of musician professionally. He dies in 1942 of a food poisoning.

Work

Tsaous appears to have composed officially only 13 songs. Among those the Five Magges in Pirée (Πέντε μάγγες στο Περαία), song which introduces into the Rebetiko elements of swing.

The other songs of Giovan Tsaous are Vlamissa (Βλάμισσα), Diamanto the libertine (Διαμάντω αλανιάρα), Giovan Tsaous (Γιοβάν Τσαούς), That of which one made fun (ο Γελασμένος), the famous the magges complain (Παραπονιούνται οι μάγκες), the convict (ο Κατάδικος), Maggissa (Μάγκισσα), has small a (Σε μια μικρούλα), Eleni divorced the (Η Ελένη η ζωντοχήρα), the drug addict (Ο πρεζάκιας) and the expenses Peloponnese (Δροσάτη Πελοπόννησος). The recordings of Giovan Tsaous are spread out over the short period of 1935 - 1937.

It is said that it is not Giovan which wrote the words of its songs but his wife, Aikaterini Xarmoutzi (Αικατερίνη Χαρμουτζή).

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