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Rita Abatzi (also spelled Abadzi; Greek: Ρίτα Αμπατζή) (1914 – 17 June 1969) was a Greek rebetiko musician who began her career in the first part of the 1930s. She was born in Smyrna (now Izmir), Turkey. Some sources have given her year of birth as 1903. A versatile singer of rebetiko, Smyrneika and other music, she was a popular performer on gramophone records in the 1930s. During that decade, the only female singer of rebetiko who rivalled her in popularity, and in the number of her recordings
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Ottoman Empire
- Place of birth
- İzmir
- Place of death
- Egaleo
- Occupation
- singer
- Languages spoken
- Modern Greek
- Genre
- Rebetiko
- Instrument
- voice
- Image
- Rita Abatzi.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1914-01-01
- date of death
- 1969-06-17
- name in native language
- Ρίτα Αμπατζή
- birth name
- Ειρήνη Αραμπατζή
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