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A story filled with music

Dimitris Lolios was born in Athens, where he has also been residing and has been spending the entirety of his music career, focusing mainly on Greek alternative, progressive music. Self-taught in guitar and piano at first, he has been writing music, lyrics as well as singing from a young age. His first live appearances trace back to his school years.

At the age of 16, with the desire to progress from being part of school bands, he becomes a member of the legendary Greek group Litis & Tryk. Amongst the band’s many appearances, he participated in the historic “Winter Sounds” (“Hxoi Tou Xeimona”) concert tour, along with various well-known rock artists of that time. By following his musical pursuits, he is then brought closer to traditional music and to Lakis Halkias, whose concerts he took part in for a long time, as a guitarist playing twelve-string guitar.

Continuing his search, his next stop finds him lpaying Cuban music and participating in musical formations with members of Apurimac and Rasta De Combre. He appears alongside Martha Moreleon, and proceeds to be part of two seasons of concerts with the Katsimiha brothers, playing bass and singing. He also participates, as a musician, on their legendary album “The Love Knife” (“Tis agapis maxairia”).

His entry in discography was iniated by Manos Xydous, after their introduction during one of Dimitris’ perfomances, where Manos happened to be a member of the audience. In 1996, a contract is signed with Minos – EMI Greeced for the CD – album “The darkness burns” (“To skotadi kaigetai”) (1998 – Minos/EMI). In the coming years, other albums are added with “The angry sea that went wild” (“Mia thalassa pou agriepse”) (2000 – Victoria /BMG), “What is love after all?” (“Ti einai h agapi telika?”) (2009 – AULOS) and the digital release of “The Words of the Soul” (“Ta logia tis psixis”) ( 2011 – Music mirror – Kathreftis).

From 2011 until today, Dimitris has published individual records in collaboration with the legendary Italian band, Nomadi, composing and jointly performing Nomadi’s hit “Lo voglio vivere”, with the greek title of “I want to be here” (“Thelo na eimai edo”).

During his music career, his has collaborated with some of the biggest names in Greek discography, such as Lavrentis Machairitsas, Giannis Zouganelis, Panos Mouzourakis, Sofia Vossou, Giannis Gioakarinis, Christos Dantis, Sofia Arvaniti and many more. He has also worked together with renowned musicians, such as Michael Paouris, Menios Pasialis and the Italian drummer Nunzio Favia.

In 2009, Microsoft selected a song with Dimitris’ music and the lyrics of Jan Caroll, named “Stormy Eyes”, along with other artists from across the globe, for their first ever Windows 7 campaign. This song appears under the title “Sponsored Songs”.

In 2011, Dimitris composes the music for Manos Sfirakis’ lyrics with the title “Hope” (“Elpis”), which is performed by Psarantonis.

In 2015, he takes part along with various other Greek artists in creating a collaborative record with the name “Re-reading Miki” (“Ksanadiabazontas ton Miki”), while composing and orchestrating the song ”The train leaves at 8” (“To treno fevgei stis 8”), with music created by Mikis Theodorakis and lyrics written by Manos Eleftheriou, sang by Erasmia Manou.

Dimitris has composed music for the theatre as well as for contemporary dance performances. Since 2016, alongside his live performances, he has been participating in his musical theatre shows as an actor himself.

In 2020-21, in the middle of a pandemic and lockdown, he continues sharing his musical creations, by releasing new songs and composing material for him and other artists.

During the winter of 2022, he released a digital album with the name “Distance”, with 13 instrumental compilations, inspired by his search for the inner self.

He is currently preparing songs with Greek, English and Italian lyrics.

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