Nikos Portokaloglou

Birthday: 12/30/1957
Place of birth: Volos, Greece
Fame for: Sound
Also known as: Νίκος Πορτοκάλογλου

Biography

Nikos Portokaloglou (born 30 December 1957) is a Greek singer, songwriter and lyricist. He started his career in 1980, when he founded the music band Fatme. The first album of the band released in 1982 under the title Fatme. The band had great success and released six albums. Some of the most successful album of that period are Taxidi and Vgenoume apo to tunnel. Since 1990, he started a solo career and he continues until now.[2] From this period, notable album are Brazilero, Ta Karavia mou Kaio and Dipsa. He has written movies soundtracks. Some of them was for the movies Akropol, Valkanizater and Brazilero. In 2002 he won 3 Arion awards in categories best song, best entechno album and best movie soundtrack.He has cooperated with important Greek singer such as Haris Alexiou, Melina Kana, Eleftheria Arvanitaki and others.