About Me
Biography in Greek
In 1992 he started as lyricist, songwriter and a singer, signing his first contract with Lyra Music Company, where his first completed work was published as a vinyl-disk and as a CD, titled «Stous kairous tous ponirous». He signs this first CD both as a musician (lyrics-music) and a singer, and as music producer. This cd has known success and has been accepted both by the media, and the public - sales, when simultaneously it includes him in the category of qualitative songwriters, while parallel, in the first semester, is enlisted in top ten of the radios.
The songs that have been spotted out from the same cd are "Nomiza", "Stous kairous tous ponirous", "Apla ki alithina" etc. The song "Nomiza" has been included in several collections of other music companies also, with more important the "Golden Triple" of Sony Music. (Nowadays it keeps on being sold in music stores, while "Nomiza" has been arranged by Charis Varthakouris, and has been included in his cd "Adunamia mou" by MINOS-ΕΜΙ with the same success.)
In 1994 his second album "Mia kainouria mera" was released by Lyra Music Company, signing all ths songs as a musician (lyrics-musing) and a singer. His second album has known similar success and it was immediately included in top ten of the radios and of the top sales. In this album "Antio" the Greek arrangemend of "Sealed with a Kiss" is included. The songs that have been spotted out from the same cd are "Antio", "Sugnomi", "Mia kainouria mera", "Paropides".
O Andreas Tsoukalas, einai ellinas tragoudopoios. To 1992 ksekinise sto xoro tis diskografias ws sunthetis, stixourgos kai ermineutis upografontas to proto tou sumbolaio me tin diskografiki etaireia Lyra, opou kai ekdothike to proto tou olokliromeno CD me ton geniko titlo «Stous kairous tous ponirous», to opoio upografei os dimiourgos (stixoi-mousiki) kai ermineutis, kathws kai ws ypeuthynos kallitexnikos epimelitis tis paragogis.
To cd auto gnwrizei epituxia toso se kritikes apo ta MME, oso kai se poliseis, kai tautoxrona ton entassei ston xoro twn poiotikwn tragoudopoiwn, enw parallila, mesa sto proto kiolas eksamino, katatassetai sta top ten twn radiofwnwn, alla kai twn polisewn stis dimosieuseis tis efimeridas Ethnos anevainwntas mexri kai tin 4h thesi stin dekada, opws prokyptei apo ta megalutera kai egkura diskopoleia stin Ellada (Metropolis, philodisk, Music Corner, Juke Box, Music & Video Center, Discoball, Music Shop).
Apo ton idio disko ksexorisan ta tragoudia «Nomiza», «Mpalanta», «Stous kairous tous pwnirous», «Apla ki alitiina», klp.
To tragoudi «Nomiza» sumperilifthike se polles sulloges kai allwn diskografikwn etaireiwn, me simantikoteri ton «Xruso Triplo» tis Sony Music. (Simera eksakolouthei na diatithetai sta diskopoleia, enw to «Nomiza» kukloforise se diaskevi apo to Hari Varthakouri sto cd tou «Adynamia mou» apo ti Minos-EMI me tin idia epituxia).
To 1993 protathike stin teliki pentada kai se treis tomeis twn Mousikwn Vraveiwn Popcorn, katopin psifoforias twn MME alla kai tou koinou se panellinio epipedo, enw parallila, ekane periodikes kai epilegmenes emfaniseis stin Athina kai se oli tin perifereia. Ap' autes ksexorisan oi emfaniseis sto "Mesogeios" stin Thessaloniki me to Mixali Rakintzi kai tin Tereza, emfaniseis me ton Kosta Tourna, kai oi sunaulies tou mousikou periodikou Popcorn se oli tin Ellada me pollous kai kataksiomenous simera kallitexnes.
To 1994 kukloforise to deutero prosopiko tou cd apo ti diskografiki etaireia Lyra, to opoio omoiws ypografei ws synthetis-stixourgos kai ermineutis, me ton geniko titlo «Mia kainourgia mera», me paromoia epityxia kai sxedon amesa sumperilambanetai kai pali sta top ten twn radiofwnwn alla kai twn pwlisewn).), me to omwnymo tragoudi na ksexorizei. Ston idio disko perilamvanei kai tin elliniki diaskeui tou tragoudiou «Sealed with a kiss», twn Gary Gold kai Peter Udell, me titlo «Antio». Apo ton idio disko ksexorisan ta tragoudia «Antio», «Sugnomi», «Mia kainouria mera», «Paropides».
To 1996 kukloforei apo ti diskografiki etairia LYRA, ena sullektiko cd single pou periexei tis epituxies apo ta duo proigoumena cds kai duo epipleon anekdota tragoudia.
To xroniko diastima 1996 - 1998, drastiriopoieitai ston tomea tis anavathmisis twn spoudwn tou kai tis mexri tote mousikis tou katartisis, parakolouthwntas eidikes spoudes kai seminaria stin Ellada kai tin Agglia (Preston) ston tomea tis mousikis paragogis, tou mousikou programmatismou, iholipsias kai stoixeiodous marketing diskografias.
Ta ws anw, se sunduasmo me tis empeirikes gnwseis pou apekomise apo tin prosopiki thiteia tou sti diskografia, kai parallila oi nees idees kai protaseis pou ton kateixan, ton odigisan se strofi stin kariera tou, me tin ulopoiisi tou arxikou skopou tis ypiresias tis Ellinikis Diskografias mesa apo ena eurytero fasma, kai sto triptuxo "paragogi - marketing - poliseis". Etsi estrepse tin prosoxi tou se (kuriws) neous talantouxous kallitexnes, analamvanontas tin apolyti euthyni tis ekastote paragogis.
To 1999 se sunergasia me tis "Ellinikes Mousikes Ekdoseis", tin Next records (periodiko «Pista») kai tin BMG, os ypeuthynos tis epimeleias paragogis ypegrapse to cd «Fysaei aeras», me ermineuti twn neoemfanizomeno Christo Mylona, kai se dianomi tis Sony Music.
To 2000 upegrapse sumbolaio me ton Omilo "Mousikoekdotiki" (Mousiko periodiko "Difwno", "Popcorn", "Pop & Rock", "Metal hammer", mousika brabeia k.l.p.), apotelesma tou opoiou ypirkse i sustasi tis diskografikis etaireias tou Omilou (M-Records), tis opoias anelave tin thesi tou Ypeuthunou Paragogis Ellinikou Repertoriou, analambanwntas kai nea kathikonta opos tin organosi kai kallitexniki dieuthynsi sunavliwn.
Mesa apo tin M-Records os ypeuthynos Paragogis Ellinikou Repertoriou kai os ypeuthynos tis epimeleias paragogis, ypegrapse to cd "San Anemos", pou einai i proti diskografiki douleia tis Chrysos Stamatopoulou, adelfis tis Manto. To cd perilambanei dodeka tragoudia kai exei emfaneis epirroes tis jazz kai tis rok mousikis. Orismena tragoudia tou album pou ksexorizoun apo to proto akousma to "San Anemos" to opoio ypografei o Andreas Tsoukalas kai ws synthetis, "Mono mia fora",Apolutikio Erota" k.a.
Edo aksizei na simeiotiei i megali "Sunavlia agapis gia ta paidia", pou diorganothike me prwtoboulia tou Sullogou Idioktitwn Frontistiriwn Ksenwn Glosswn Nomou Axaias kai Zakuntiou (PALSO), kai me pollous akoma xorigous. Tin Sunaulia Agapis gia ta paidia parousiase o dimosiografos Petros Kantianis. Tin kallitexniki dieuthunsi eixe analabei o Andreas Tsoukalas. Ta esoda tis Synaulias diatethikan se tria Idrymata gia paidia me eidikes anagkes: Eidiko Dimotiko Sxoleio PIKPA, PIKPA parartima Patrwn, Kibotos Agapis. I megali synaulia egine stin Patra me afilokerdi summetoxi simantikwn kallitexnwn opos o Themis Adamantidis, i Katerina Topazi,i Chryso Stamatopoulou klp.
Episis summeteixe ws kallitexnikos ypeuthynos stis sunaulies tou mousikou periodikou Popcorn se synergasia me to Thodori Rakitzi (organosi) kai ton Petro Kantiani (Ypeuthyno Epikoinwnias & MME). Stis synaulies autes, ektos tou Mixali Rakintzi plaisiomenou apo neous talantouxous kallitexnes, summeteixe kai o idios kai ermineutika, eginan de 36 periodeies se oli tin Ellada.
Simera sunexizei ti dimiourgiki kallitexniki tou poreia sto paraskinio, ws Mousikos Paragogos kai Mousikosunthetis boithwntas neous kallitexnes, grafontas tragoudia ki exontas tin kallitexniki dieuthunsi mousikwn paragogwn kathos kai tin kallitexniki dieuthunsi kai organosi mousikwn xorwn.
Ta tragoudia tou pou exoun kukloforisei kai se Video clip einai ta «Nomiza», «Stous kairous tous ponirous», «Mpalanta», «Sugnomi», «Mia kainourgia mera».
