Iovan Tsaous
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Iovan Tsaous (1893 - 1942, Greek: Γιοβάν Τσαούς) was a Greek musician and composer of rebetiko music. His real name was Yiannis Eitziridis or Etseiridis (Γιάννης Εϊτζιρίδης or Ετσειρίδης).
[edit] Biography
Iovan Tsaous was born in 1893 and was from Kastamonu in Pontus. As an Ottoman Empire citizen he did his army service in the Military of the Ottoman Empire with the rank of a sergeant (Yovan or Yaman is the Turkish version of the name Yiannis and çavuş is the Turkish word for sergeant). After the Asia Minor catastrophe, he came to Greece as a refugee and settled at Piraeus where he worked as a shoemaker. He died in 1942 of poisoning.
[edit] Works
He has recorded the following thirteen songs which are his own compositions, sang by Stellakis Perpiniadis and Antonis Kalyvopoulos, with him accompanying them on saz:
- Pente Magges ston Peraia (Πέντε μάγκες στον Περαία) -- Five tramps in Pireas
- Vlamissa (Βλάμισσα) -- She-comrade
- Diamanto alaniara (Διαμάντω αλανιάρα) -- Wandering Diamanto
- Iovan Tsaus (Τσαούς)
- Gelasmenos (Γελασμένος) -- Fooled
- Parapoliountai oi Magkes (Παραπονιούνται οι μάγκες) -- The tramps are whining
- Katadikos (Κατάδικος) -- Convict
- Magkissa (Μάγκισσα) -- She-tramp
- Se Mia Mikroula (Σε μια μικρούλα) -- To a little girl
- I Eleni I Zontochira (Η Ελένη η ζωντοχήρα) -- Eleni, the grass-widow
- O Prezakias (Ο πρεζάκιας) -- The junky
- Ego Thelo Prigkipessa (Εγώ θέλω πριγκηπέσσα) -- I Want a Princess
- Drosati Peloponnisos (Δροσάτη Πελοπόννησος) -- Cool Peloponnese
It is said that his wife Katerina Charmoutzi (Κατερίνα Χαρμουτζή) helped in writing his songs.
