Manos Hadjidakis has been played on NTS shows including Donna Leake, with Ta Matoklada Sou Laboun first played on 7 September 2023.

Manos Hadjidakis (Μάνος Χατζιδάκις) (1925-1994) was a Greek composer.

Hadjidakis was born on 23rd October 1925 in Xanthi, a tobacco-growing town near the northern border of Greece. His father, Yorgos Hadjidakis, a lawyer, was from Myrthio, the prefecture of Rethymnon, Crete. His mother, Aliki (Vasiliki), nee Arvanitidou, from Adrianople.

At the age of four he began taking piano lessons with Madame Altounian, a teacher of Armenian descent, in Xanthi. He also learned to play the violin and the accordion. In 1932, the mother and…