years_active article_title background birth_date genre image origin name
1983 -- present lefteris hapsiadis
 non_performing_personnel 23 october 1953 laïka , contemporary laïka , rebetiko , traditional pop lefterishapsiadisnew.jpg feres , greece lefteris hapsiadis el Λευτέρης Χαψιάδης
lefteris hapsiadis

lefteris hapsiadis -lrb- , born october 23 , 1953 -rrb- is a distinguished contemporary greek lyrics author , a poet and a writer of novels .
in the last thirty years he has written various poems , three novels and also lyrics for 525 songs -lrb- registered with aepi -rrb- in the contemporary greek `` rebetika '' , `` laïka '' -lrb- pop music -rrb- and `` elafra '' -lrb- light music -rrb- genres .
he has collaborated with various music composers , and has occasionally worked as a record producer .
among those , he has often worked with christos nikolopoulos with whom he has had a number of popular records -lrb- including Μία είναι η ουσία - `` one matter counts '' , and Κάποια , κάπου , κάποτε - `` some woman , somewhere , sometime '' -rrb- .
together they also created and produced a cd with 12 songs -lrb- december 1986 -rrb- , for which they were able to assemble together 11 popular greek performers , including giorgos dalaras , haris alexiou , stratos dionysiou , giannis parios , and manolis mitsias .
nikolopoulos performed one of the songs in the cd as well , his first public singing performance ever .
the cd was launched as '' Τραγούδια για τους φίλους μου '' - `` songs for my friends '' .
other quite well known performers of hapsiadis pop songs were stelios kazantzidis , glykeria and manolis aggelopoulos .
