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Ρίτα Αμπατζή

Ρίτα Αμπατζή has been played on NTS in shows including 150 Session, featured first on 16 December 2017. Songs played include The Slippers and Greece: Prepei Na Skeptetai Kaneis.

Ρίτα Αμπατζή (Rita Abatzi; 1914-1969) was a singer of rembetika.

Αμπατζή was born in Smyrna, now İzmir, Turkey, and began her career in the first half of the 1930s. A versatile singer of rembetika, Smyrneika, and other music, she was a popular performer on Gramophone records in the 1930s. During that decade, the only female singer of rembetika who rivalled her in popularity, and in the number of her recordings, was Ρόζα Εσκενάζυ.

Αμπατζή performed with many of…

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MOST PLAYED TRACKS
The Slippers
Rita Abatzi
Mississippi Records, Canary Records2014
The Slippers
Rita AbatziMississippi Records, Canary Records2014
Discogs
Greece: Prepei Na Skeptetai Kaneis
Rita Abatzi
Outernational Records, Yazoo2010
Greece: Prepei Na Skeptetai Kaneis
Rita AbatziOuternational Records, Yazoo2010
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