Aris Davarakis was a guest on the show of Crateros Katsoulis and Maria Iliaki. The well-known lyricist, on the occasion of the new musical performance he is preparing at “Pallas” with Evanthia Reboutsika, spoke to the camera of Public Television on Friday morning (8/5), recounting the most important moments of his life.
“There were people who defined me in one way. Well, I want to say that my parents also defined me very much, to start somewhere… Immediately after that was my very, very good friend, who I was lucky enough, coming from Egypt, from Alexandria, where I came from when I was eleven years old, to meet her.
I have friends who have been friends for sixty years! And that may have made up for the fact that I have no family. And that my own family, parents and all, “disappeared” quickly. When I was young. So at 26 I was left with no one. But I had my friends. The others were great. There was Hatzidakis, there was Melina,” describes Aris Davarakis.
“There is no adjective that defines Melina, how can you describe her? She was a flame! What always struck me was how down-to-earth and earthy she was in all the glory of her brilliance. Because she had an incredible glow. One of those people who, as we say, walk into the room and everybody’s looking.
And everything she did she did with passion, with faith. From her art, theatre, cinema, and also the Ministry of Culture. A very direct person. Very loving, generous, sick to help. In difficulties, in some hospitals and such that I had, she was the person who came to the hospital, not that she called… she came! To come, to learn, to ask the doctors, to contact the doctors. That’s what we call a “co-conspirator”. And Hatzidakis too, a very, very rare creature, of great harmony and kindness and generosity. Those two made me a human being,” the lyricist confesses.
“There’s a lot of hope in difficulty. That is, if you’re really optimistic and you really believe that things are going to get straightened out, things are going to be all right, in the darkest darkness the star and the light pops out.
Thank God I’ve been very lucky, because I’ve been through a lot of difficulties in my life. Prisons, illnesses, three and a half months of evangelism. My parents died very early, I was left on my own. I had no money, it was hard to make ends meet. I was angry at my parents for dying early, I cursed them! “Guys, where did you go? Why have you disappeared now?” Everything happens for a reason,” Aris Davarakis concludes in “Early Early”.
