Anecdotes

Since his arrival in Greece, he has been involved in the group of the so-called rembetologists, who where in fact old record collectors and researchers of the rembetiko ethnic songs and history. The "discovery" and promotion of the rembetiko ethnic music, is still one of his main interests.

He was involved in a childish, as he says, resistance group during the dictatorship. He was arrested, and escaped to Paris with the help of his friends Jean-Daniel Pollet and Barbet Schroeder.

In Egypt, he worked as a journalist for the left wing Greek newspaper "Paroikos". Later, in Greece, and by 1980, he was asked by Panayiotis Lambrias to work again as a journalist, in the right-wing newspaper Messimvrini.

He published his poems at the age of 16, in Alexandria's weekly Greek newspaper "Imera", under the pseudonym Takis Psarros.

With a group of friends, he formed a vocal group by the name The Four Aces, singing mostly doo-wap songs, in 1955. Later, in Greece, the Group was reunited, and followed a small career, by the name The Devils.