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| | The Death of Stelios Kazantzidis |
 | | Stelios Kazantzidis, one of Greece's most loved 'laika' singers, died Friday in hospital at the age of 70 after a months-long bout with cancer. |
 | | Kazantzidis was born on August 29, 1931, and at the tender age of 13 lost his father, a resistance fighter who died from the |
 | | Kazantzidis made his first appearance in a night club, in Kifissia, in the early 1950s, and two years later he made his first studio recording, phonographing a song by renowned laika composer Apostolos Kaldaras, titled 'I'm going swimming, come along if you like". |
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