Apostolos Rizos

He was born in Lamia, a city of Greece , in 1977.
The admiration to his musician grandfather( he was playing guitar and harmonica) brought him to the magical world of music since his early childhood.
He started to sing and play guitar in public when he was 15, solo or with bands.
In 1996 , he moved to Athens City cause of his entrance to the National Technology University of Athens( NTUA). He studied Mechanical Engineering. During the same time in Athens he continued his music studies on guitar, vocal and theory lessons.
The composer and songwriter Nikos Zoudiaris first time met him when Apostolos Rizos was 19 years old, in Athens music scene “ Chamam”. Apostolos was singing there in the gigs of the songwriters Takis Bourmas and George Zikas. Three years later Nikos Zoudiaris published his new cd album “Enas kyknos klaiei” with the young singer.(p+c 2000,by minos-EMI ) Almost one year later the music meeting of Nikos Zoudiaris and Apostolos Rizos was continued to the cd single “fysalida”.(p+c 2001,by minos-EMI)
In 2005, Apostolos Rizos sang the song “Gialini mikri kouklitsa” in the cd album “O Tembelis drakos” of George Xatzipieriris.( p +c 2005,by Universal )
In 2007,in the cd album of the composer Martha Menahem ¨Mikri elegeia¨(p+c 2007,by aap),he arranged and sang ¨To vasilema pou peftei¨,a poem of Napoleon Lapathiotis.
These days he finished the recording of a new album with the music of the double bass player/composer Vangelis Kontopoulos and lyrics of Giorgos Frantzolas.
Through these years he played gigs in small music clubs of Athens City and other cities in Greece, in festivals and in concerts of Nikos Zoudiaris with Thanos Mikroutsikos, Alkinoos Ioannidis, Eleni Tsaligopoulou, Nikos Kouroupakis and Kostas Thomaidis.
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