Sofia Vempo 30 Years LP Σοφία Βέμπο 30 Χρόνια # 2 1st pressing Greek Import 1964
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Sofia Vempo 30 Years LP Σοφία Βέμπο 30 Χρόνια No. 2 1st pressing Greek Import 1964 Archival sleeve
The Modern Greek Song in its early years was fortunate in finding an artist of the caliber of Sofia Vembo. As an artist she gave pleasure to thousands through a whole era. This Album the second by Sofia Vembo is dedicated to that generation which lived during the immediate pre-war years and through the hardships of the war generation which will remember with nostalgia these songs
Sofia Vembo (Greek: Σοφία Βέμπο; 10 February 1910, in Gallipoli, East Thrace, Turkey– 10 March 1978, in Athens, Greece) was a leading Greek singer and actress active from the interwar period to the early postwar years and the 1950s. She became best known for her performance of patriotic songs during the Greco-Italian War, when she was dubbed the "Songstress of Victory".
Vembo's real name was Efi Bembou (Έφη Μπέμποu). She was born in Gallipoli, Eastern Thrace, Turkey, in 1910, but after the Asia Minor Catastrophe, her family moved to Tsaritsani of Larissa in Greece, where her father became a tobacco worker, and later to Volos in Greece.
She began her career in Thessaloniki in the early 1930s. In the winter of 1933, she was hired by the theater operator Fotis Samartzis of the Kentrikon theater for the revue "Parrot 1933". She then began to record romantic songs for the Columbia company, achieving fame because of her distinctly sonorous contralto voice.
Her reputation, however, skyrocketed after the Italian attack on Greece on 28 October 1940, when her performance of patriotic and satirical songs became a major inspiration for the fighting soldiers as well as the people at large for whom she quickly became a folk heroine. At the same time, she offered 2,000 gold pounds from her own fortune to the Hellenic Navy. Following the German invasion and occupation of the country in April 1941, she was transported to the Middle East, where she continued to perform for the Greek troops in exile.
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