Σωκράτης Μάλαμας

Σωκράτης Μάλαμας (Sokratis Malamas) (b. September 29, 1957 in Sykia in Chalkidiki, Greece) is a greek musician and singer.

Sokratis Malamas was born on September 29, 1957 in Sykia in Chalkidiki, Greece. His family moved to Stuttgart, Germany for a few years, he later moved to Thessaloniki. There, he sang bouzouki songs and he learned from his father about his music. At age thirteen, he bought his first guitar and practised for his presentations at schoolworks and when he was seventeen, he followed his guitar studies at the Macedonian Conservatory of Thessaloniki (Μακεδονικό Ωδείο Θεσσαλονίκης = Makedoniko Odeio Thessalonikis). He returned to Germany after he finished school and later went to the Stuttgart Odeon. In one difficult period of his life, he came back to Greece and attended studies at the National Conservatory of Athens (Εθνικό Ωδείο Αθηνών = Ethniko Odeio Athinon). He was taught by Vangelis Assimakopoulos and Νότης Μαυρουδής (Notis Mavroudis). At 23, he began his professional career, worked as a guitar teacher and a singer in some public shops. Before he continued into his personal way, he had a guitarist at his orchestra of Νίκος Παπάζογλου (Nikos Papazoglou).

He continued to play music in public shops, he tried and put his songs on programs. Not until the time that Nikos Papazoglou made him enter the studio and began his first album Ασπρόμαυρες Ιστορίες (Aspromavres Istories / Black & White Stories) in 1989. Sokratis Malamas wrote songs for theatrical releases and made his performance in the odeon. His direction of his works was better known and loved his charts. Today, he resides as a creator in Thessaloniki.

He performed with famous musicians including Μανώλης Ρασούλης (Manolis Rasoulis), composers including Νίκος Ξυδάκης (Nikos Xydakis), Μελίνα Κανά (Melina Kana) and more composers including Giannis Tsatsopoulos, Giorgos Athanassopoulos, Alkis Alkaiou, Fotini Lambridis, Thodoros Gonis, Michalis Gkanas, Odysseas Ioannou and Θανάσης Παπακωνσταντίνου (Thanasis Papakonstantinou). He also had participations in works of other famous artists such as Διονύσης Τσακνής (Dionyssis Tsaknis), Maria Thoidou, B.D. Foxmoor and Sadahzinia (of Active Member), Ελευθερία Αρβανιτάκη (Eleftheria Arvanitaki), Θάνος Μικρούτσικος (Thanos Mikroutsikos), Michalis Siganidis, Takis Vouis, Maria Papanikolaou and others.

Malamas also wrote songs that were featured in famous movies including To Kynigi To Lagou (Το Κυνήγι του Λαγού) and interpreted a song called To Chrono na Lavoso (Το χρόνο να λαβώσω) in a short-length film Ypsoma 33 (Ύψωμα 33).

See wikipedia for discography.