The great composer and singer, Stavros Logaridis, passed away at the age of 69.
Logaridis lost the battle with cancer, leaving behind a great volume of work in Greek cultural life. He was an important creator and a member of the legendary band Poll, along with Costas Tournas and Robert Williams.
He started playing music before going to primary school under the guidance of his grandfather, who was a lead singer in the Church of Agios Georgios at the Patriarchate, ordained by Athenagoras.
As a child, Stavros had a penchant for music as well as rhythmic education.
His grandfather began to teach him sounds and rhythms, before taking him to church, and let him instinctively follow the chanters with improvisations that the young Stavros improvised.
His father played the guitar and his mother the accordion. The deceased leaves behind a son named Lefteris.
He got his first guitar when he was 10 years old when he first heard the music of the sixties. At the age of 14, he formed the band Juniors and at the same time the group Sphinx. The Sphinx, together with Alex Banakis, Nakis Saris, and Michalis Aspiotis, won the first prize in a pan-Turkish music competition announced by the Hurriyet newspaper at the time. At the age of 15, he came to Athens and went to the then Polydor and released his first 45 rpm album with the funny title “She was a little girl and a brunette”.
He collaborated in the studio with the organizer of Charms and participates to make money on Hatzidakis’s vocals in the films of Aliki Vougiouklaki, in Finos.
In 2004 he released the album “Suddenly Summer” with El. Zioga and L. Dimopoulou, Tz. Kefala, G. Spatha in Minos again with guitarist D. Papachristou. Logaridis rarely appeared in public and held concerts. One of his last live collaborations was in 2005 with Socrates and D. Poulikakos on the Magic Bus of Club22 with guitarist and friend Dimis Papachristos, who passed away from cancer after two years. In 2009 he released a double album and a DVD in the newspaper Kyriakatiki Eleftherotypia entitled “the children are playing”.
