Stamatis Kraounakis spoke with emotion about George Marinos, a few hours after the news of the great artist’s death at the age of 87 on Tuesday afternoon, March 10. The well-known composer was hosted by telephone on the show “To Porino” by George Liagas and referred to the long-standing relationship and collaboration that connected them.
“I can’t stand it, I don’t want this, I didn’t want it today. It is very much known that with Marino our relationship was a huge, long relationship. Years of hanging out, late nights, laughs, work. A very crazy thing was our chemistry, very crazy. We stuck together.
He was one of the people that when I first walked into Medusa, the stairs, I was taken by Lilanda Lykiardopoulou and had a rehearsal. And I came down and she stopped the rehearsal, she had just done Rusty Lips or I think it was Christiana, I don’t remember. “Finally, I’ve been waiting for you all my life,” he said. Those huge, wonderful excesses of George’s. I owe my artistic self to him in a very, very large part. Not to say that I owe him and Voutsinas entirely, if I am anything,” he said at first, describing their creative coexistence.
He was a child of Hatzidakis, too. But Hatzidakis had also seen something when he had him on Dream Street with his legs dangling offstage, singing that monumental song that has stayed with him forever. And I’m going to reveal this to you, George didn’t want to put it in the programs because he thought it was bad luck. The universe passed by his house in Mati. A sacrificial man. He took me to London with his own money and dragged me to see musicals from morning till night so I could do the monumental programme for him, which also became a show. There are two of our live shows excellent, one taken at Sony and the other at Sirius.”
The composer stressed that George Marinos was a pioneer in Greek theatre. “He opened a door to spectacle that didn’t exist in Athens until then. He was a revolutionary, unique. He changed the way of the Athenian night. That cologne is still in my senses. He was expensive, he was noble, he was foul-mouthed, but always aristocratic. And I also believe very much that what George brought to the air of the Athenian night, with his presence for so many years, no one has dared or done with such courage.”
The last communication Stamatis Kraounakis had with George Marinos was about three years ago. “We had spoken when he went to that place there in the retirement home in Glyfada. He had called me on the phone, he was in his right mind. It’s been two or three years. I don’t remember well,” concluded Stamatis Kraounakis.
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