Panayótis Toúndas

Panayótis Toúndas (Παναγιώτης Τούντας) was a Greek musician of Asia Mineure. He is the most famous type-setter of the school of Smyrna and belongs to the group of the musicians micrasiates who adapted the Rebétiko in Greece after the catastrophe of Asia Mineure.

He was born in 1886 with Smyrna in an easy family which gave him the possibility of practicing the music as of her young age.

He thus learned as of childhood the Mandoline and formed part at the beginning of the 20th century of the Estudiantina smyrniote , Vassílios Sidéris, more known under the name of your politakia . He took part in various musical formations which made rounds from Smyrna, for the entertainment of the Greeks of the diaspora, and travelled in Egypt, in Ethiopia, Greece and in several European countries having a Greek community. He says in one of his songs: " I visited the Syria, Port-Saïd and Alexandria ".

The first years after the catastrophe, he played in dievrs cabarets as mandolin player. In 1924 it took the direction of the branch of German company ODEON in Athens. He worked with almost all the companies discographics and directed the majority of the recordings which took place in Greece. The same year it recorded the " Smyrnia" with the Athenian estudiantina of Tasos Marinos and became the first Greek popular artist to see his name written on the label of a disc. In 1931 it took the artistic director of the Columbia and " His master' S voice " and this station juqu' in 1940 preserved. Its discography comprises approximately 350 songs which were interpreted by all the singers of pre-war period like Kostas Roukounas, Stélios Perpiniádis, Kostas Nouros, Róza Eskenázy, Rita Abatzi…

It is deceased on May 23rd, 1942.

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