BABIS TZANIDAKIS is a Greek songwriter and singer. He begun performing for an audience in the summer of 2005, playing with a rock band that he founded one year earlier, named Persisted Grey. The band’s 1st studio album which was composed and written by himself, was released at the end of 2006. The next decade, until the summer of 2016, he released another four studio albums with the same musicians, the three of them in Greek and one in English. Those years among others, he collaborated in the studio with the multi-instrumentalist ROSS DALY and in live performances, with visual artist SBell (founder of the Visual Vibe Project) and performer/dancer Giannis Smeros. Together they created a series of audiovisual events, presented to audience as interactive concerts, with no use of a stage, in the streets of Athens, Greece. Babis Tzanidakis’ first solo studio album begun through his research into TRADITIONAL GREEK MUSIC. Therefore, in October 2016, Babis Tzanidakis collaborated with the traditional musician CHRISTOS TSIOUNIS, combining Christos’ greek folk background with Babis’ Rock musical forms. The electric guitar is blended with the cretan lute, the dodecanese mandolin and the tzoura of Smyrni. Babis Tzanidakis’ first solo studio album, entitled “On white canvas”, was released in Greece, Turkey and Israel, in October 2017. In May 2023, his second full length album “The silence of Ariadne” was released worldwide.
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Babis Tzanidakis plays a distinctive fusion of traditional Greek folk music and rock, blending electric guitars with regional instruments like the Cretan lute and tzoura.
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His live performances often feature interactive audiovisual elements and collaborations with dancers and visual artists, frequently staged in unconventional urban spaces.
