Photos from the personal archive of George Theofanous
"The man who believed in me more than anyone else has passed away," says George Theofanous and is moved.
He remembers the man, the artist Leonidas Malenis, who passed away at the age of 85. His artistic father, he says.
It is with great emotion that beloved music composer George Theofanous bids farewell to a man who, he tells the Cyprus Times, was the one who took him to Greece.
"The man who believed in me more than anyone else at the beginning of my career is gone. My musical father. My friend, my best man, my partner in recording and theatre," says George Theofanous.
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[/P]He gave my songs to the then director of EMI
"He was the one who was responsible for me being in Greece, he brought my songs while I was still a student on a cassette and the then EMI director Filippos Papatheodorou heard them and that's how I started recording here in Greece. I will always be grateful to him for that."
First big hit nationwide, "The Only I Remember".
"Leonidas was wrong about one thing. And now in my grief I remember it with a smile. Surely he too will smile at me from where he lies. So his mistake was his insistence that I sing my songs. Not because he thought I was a good singer. I was giving them, he said, the soul they deserved," says George Theofanous.
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And he bids farewell to his beloved Leonidas Malenis, with a "bon voyage".
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